# Bug Report: Issue with Syncing Experiments from Pavlovia to PsychoPy

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/bug-report-issue-with-syncing-experiments-from-pavlovia-to-psychopy/31754>\
**Category:** Online experiments\
**Tags:** syntaxerror\
**Created:** [November 4, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/bug-report-issue-with-syncing-experiments-from-pavlovia-to-psychopy/31754 "2022-11-04T22:30:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![parthnn1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/parthnn1/32/35975_2.png) [@parthnn1](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/parthnn1)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/bug-report-issue-with-syncing-experiments-from-pavlovia-to-psychopy/31754/1 "2022-11-04T22:30:41Z")

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Hello!

I am currently using MacOS Ventura 13.0 and I am using PsychoPy Builder v2022.2.4. I was attempting to use the Pavlovia search function on the PsychoPy to fork and sync an experiment from the Pavlovia explore page in order to edit some of the aspects of the experiment. The forking part worked perfectly fine, but when I attempted to sync it to my local computer, I was told there was an unhandled internal error. I attempted to sync experiments I forked from the Pavlovia website on PsychoPy as well and this did not work either. I also tried to do it with multiple different experiments I have forked, but nothing worked. I wanted to put the error details here in case anyone else was experiencing these issues as well! I would appreciate any help I could get as I am new to both Pavlovia/PsychoPy and research in general, and if there is any more information I could provide, I will definitely try and find it! 🙂

Error Details:  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/app/pavlovia\_ui/project.py”, line 596, in fork  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/app/pavlovia\_ui/project.py”, line 561, in sync  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/app/pavlovia\_ui/project.py”, line 777, in syncProject  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/app/pavlovia\_ui/functions.py”, line 94, in showCommitDialog  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/projects/pavlovia.py”, line 1058, in getChanges  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/projects/pavlovia.py”, line 899, in repo  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/projects/pavlovia.py”, line 974, in newRepo  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/psychopy/projects/pavlovia.py”, line 1014, in cloneRepo  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/git/repo/base.py”, line 1032, in clone\_from  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/git/repo/base.py”, line 973, in \_clone  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/git/util.py”, line 329, in finalize\_process  
File “/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/git/cmd.py”, line 408, in wait  
git.exc.GitCommandError: Cmd(‘/Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/git-core/git’) failed due to: exit code(128)  
cmdline: /Volumes/PsychoPy-2022.2.4/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/git-core/git clone -v [Parth Nakirikanti / Blocked Stroop · GitLab](https://oauth2:8fb1230e9ea9ea7e63bcdf6c2996269e57aef3664a8f7a63a5dd1e56033e7c11@gitlab.pavlovia.org/parthnn1/blockedStroop) /Users/parthnakirikanti/Documents  
stderr: ‘fatal: destination path ‘/Users/parthnakirikanti/Documents’ already exists and is not an empty directory.  
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**Author:** ![wakecarter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/wakecarter/32/5753_2.png) [@wakecarter](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/wakecarter)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/bug-report-issue-with-syncing-experiments-from-pavlovia-to-psychopy/31754/2 "2022-11-05T13:04:32Z")

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Are you trying to sync your entire documents folder?