docker-credential-desktop not installed or not available in PATH

I might have a bit of a messed Docker installation on my Mac.. At first I installed Docker desktop but then running it I learned that as I'm on an older Mac I had to install VirtualBox so I did following these steps:

1. enable writing on the /usr/local/bin folder for user

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/bin

2. install Docker-Machine

base=https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/download/v0.16.0 && curl -L $base/docker-machine-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) >/usr/local/bin/docker-machine && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-machine

3. install Xcode CLI..manually from dev account

4. Install Home Brew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

5. Install Docker + wget ( Using Brew)

brew install docker

brew install wget

6. Install bash completion scripts

base=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/machine/v0.16.0 for i in docker-machine-prompt.bash docker-machine-wrapper.bash docker-machine.bash do sudo wget "$base/contrib/completion/bash/${i}" -P /etc/bash_completion.d done

7. enable the docker-machine shell prompt

echo 'PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__docker_machine_ps1)]$ '' >> ~/.bashrc

8. Install VirtualBox, ExtensionPack and SDK

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

I now installed docker-compose (docker-compose version 1.29.2, build unknown) with home-brew but when running docker-compose up I get the docker.credentials.errors.InitializationError: docker-credential-desktop not installed or not available in PATH error..

which docker prints /usr/local/bin/docker.

Brew installations are in /usr/local/Cellar/docker/20.10.6 and /usr/local/Cellar/docker-compose/1.29.2. As I see there is also a home-brew for docker-machine should I install docker-machine via home-brew instead? What can I check to make sure that I use the docker installations from home-brew and wipe/correct the installations made from steps above? Many thanks.

Check your config.json and replace "credsStore" by "credStore"

{
  "stackOrchestrator" : "swarm",
  "experimental" : "disabled",
  "credStore" : "desktop"
}

After a long googling I found out that the problem is with the config.json file. The "credsStore" : "docker-credential-desktop" is wrong one in :

{
  "credsStore" : "docker-credential-desktop",
  "stackOrchestrator" : "swarm",
  "experimental" : "disabled"
} 

changed the "credsDstore" key value to "desktop" and compose now works as expected. Some pointed out that credsDstore typo was the problem and fixed it with credDstore, but in my case the value was the problem, it works both with "credsStore" : "desktop" and "credStore" : "desktop".

Hope it'll help others starting out with Docker. Cheers.