2.3.0: verifyPlugin error

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What happened?

verifyPlugin Gradle task fails with an error.

Relevant log output or stack trace

> Task :MyPlugin:verifyPlugin FAILED
Starting the IntelliJ Plugin Verifier 1.382
2025-02-26T13:36:28 [main] INFO  c.j.p.options.OptionsParser - The verification directory /Users/user/Projects/MyPlugin/build/reports/pluginVerifier is being deleted because it is not empty.
Verification reports directory: /Users/user/Projects/MyPlugin/build/reports/pluginVerifier
Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /Users/user/.pluginVerifier/loaded-plugins/.downloads
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:92)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:106)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newDirectoryStream(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:485)
        at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newDirectoryStream(Files.java:482)
        at java.base/java.nio.file.FileTreeWalker.visit(FileTreeWalker.java:301)
        at java.base/java.nio.file.FileTreeWalker.walk(FileTreeWalker.java:323)
        at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.walkFileTree(Files.java:2792)
        at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.walkFileTree(Files.java:2870)
        at com.jetbrains.plugin.structure.base.utils.FileUtilKt.forceRemoveDirectory(FileUtil.kt:144)
        at com.jetbrains.plugin.structure.base.utils.FileUtilKt.forceDeleteIfExists(FileUtil.kt:97)
        at com.jetbrains.pluginverifier.repository.downloader.DownloadProvider.<init>(DownloadProvider.kt:36)
        at com.jetbrains.pluginverifier.plugin.PluginFilesBank$Companion.create(PluginFilesBank.kt:52)
        at com.jetbrains.pluginverifier.PluginVerifierMain.main(PluginVerifierMain.kt:118)

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a Gradle project with two sibling IDEA plugin modules.
2. Run ./gradlew verifyPlugin more than once.
3. The first time build succeeds, but on subsequent runs there is a chance that it fails.

Gradle IntelliJ Plugin version

2.3.0

Gradle version

8.12.1

Operating System

None

Link to build, i.e. failing GitHub Action job

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