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I can't seem to figure out why my forest externalization fails. It always works properly on the first compile, and if I clear any temporary files from my directory, but otherwise making any change to the tree and trying to recompile fails entirely with the following error:

./Untitled.tex:15: Package tikz Error: Sorry, the system call 'pdflatex -shell-escape -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname "Untitled-forest-3" "\def\tikzexternalrealjob{Untitled}\input{Untitled}"' did NOT result in a usable output file 'Untitled-forest-3' (expected one of .pdf:.jpg:.jpeg:.png:). Please verify that you have enabled system calls. For pdflatex, this is 'pdflatex -shell-escape'. Sometimes it is also named 'write 18' or something like that. Or maybe the command simply failed? Error messages can be found in 'Untitled-forest-3.log'. If you continue now, I'll try to typeset the picture.

Here is a MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[linguistics, external]{forest}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize

\begin{document}
    Forest:
    
    \begin{forest}
        [VP
            [V]
            [NP]
        ]
    \end{forest}
\end{document}

And I'll include the full log, in case there's something I'm missing:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.24 (TeX Live 2022) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
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    I can offer an alternative externalization tool, Memoize, which is almost ready to be published. If you want to try it out, contact me via email (which you can get from my webpage). Mar 21 at 23:51

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