Esp8266 SPIFFS empty

Hello,

thanks for your hint. With that, I do not even get that far:

src\SettingsManager.cpp: In member function 'bool SettingsManager::loadWifiSettings()':
src\SettingsManager.cpp:5:17: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
    5 |     Preferences preferences;
      |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~
src\SettingsManager.cpp: In member function 'bool SettingsManager::loadAppSettings()':
src\SettingsManager.cpp:17:17: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
   17 |     Preferences preferences;
      |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~
cc1plus.exe: some warnings being treated as errors
*** [.pio\build\esp8622\src\SettingsManager.cpp.o] Error 1
In file included from src\main.cpp:10:

and later

src\main.cpp:293:30: error: no matching function for call to 'fs::FS::open(const char [2])'
  293 |   File root = SPIFFS.open("/");

Best regards,
Hendrik