Dfx error Crypto state directory does not exist

I don’t expect to receive much feedback on Saturday evening before Christmas, but has anyone encountered the following dfx error? Is it possible to resolve it without wiping the local state?

❯ dfx start
Running dfx start for version 0.15.1
Using project-specific network ‘local’ defined in /Users/daviddalbusco/projects/opensource/proposals.network/dfx.json
thread ‘main’ panicked at ‘called Result::unwrap() on an Err value: “Crypto state directory does not exist: /Users/daviddalbusco/projects/opensource/proposals.network/.dfx/network/local/state/replicated_state/node-100/crypto”’, rs/replica/src/setup.rs:280:75
note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace

rm -r .dfx “solved” it. :weary: