Can't upload psychopy experiment to Pavlovia

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URL of experiment:

Description of the problem:

I’m trying to upload new experiments to my Pavlovia account. However, I keep encountering this problem:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/app/builder/builder.py”, line 1242, in onPavloviaRun
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/app/pavlovia_ui/project.py”, line 533, in syncProject
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/app/pavlovia_ui/functions.py”, line 119, in showCommitDialog
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/projects/pavlovia.py”, line 962, in commit
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/git/cmd.py”, line 548, in
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/git/cmd.py”, line 1014, in _call_process
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/git/cmd.py”, line 825, in execute
git.exc.GitCommandError: Cmd(‘/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/git-core/git’) failed due to: exit code(1)
cmdline: /Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/git-core/git commit -m _
stdout: ‘On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
modified: .RData
modified: .Rhistory
modified: .bash_history
modified: .bash_profile
deleted: .cache/fontconfig/84c0f976e30e948e99073af70f4ae876-le64.cache-7
deleted: .cache/fontconfig/b0a71e6bf6a8a1a908413a823d76e21f-le64.cache-7
modified: .idlerc/recent-files.lst
modified: .psychopy3/appData.cfg
modified: .psychopy3/last_app_load.log
modified: .psychopy3/pavlovia/projects.json
modified: .psychopy3/pavlovia/users.json

Untracked files:
.rnd
.rstudio-desktop/
.subversion/
.vscode/
.wdc/
Applications/
Creative Cloud Files/
Desktop/
Documents/
Downloads/
Dropbox (Old)/
Dropbox/
Library/
Movies/
Music/
Pictures/
Public/
Samsung/
Zotero/
iCloud Drive (Archive)/

no changes added to commit’
stderr: ‘warning: could not open directory ‘.Trash/‘: Operation not permitted’

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Where is your PsychoPy experiment file? It looks like it’s in the root of your User folder. You need to create a dedicated folder for it.

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I saved the files to a folder in Documents. So everything include stimuli and .psyexp and lastrun.py are in that folder.

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Hello,

Did you resolve this issue?

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Hey @U2051246,

Are you encountering something similar?

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Exactly the same thing. I have created my experiment in PsychoPy builder and it is fully functional offline, but I cannot sync with Pavlovia.

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We’ll need some more information I’m afraid. What error did you get for example? Where is your folder at? Also, this tutorial might already help out? Creating online experiments from Builder — PsychoPy v2021.1

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When I attempt to ‘synch’ the following error presents:

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The details of which are:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\builder\builder.py”, line 1325, in onPavloviaSync
retVal = pavlovia_ui.syncProject(parent=self, project=self.project)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\builder\builder.py”, line 1416, in project
elif self.filename and pavlovia.getProject(self.filename):
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\projects\pavlovia.py”, line 1068, in getProject
gitRoot = getGitRoot(filename)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\projects\pavlovia.py”, line 1049, in getGitRoot
cwd=str(p)).decode(‘utf-8’):
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\subprocess.py”, line 336, in check_output
**kwargs).stdout
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\subprocess.py”, line 418, in run
output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘[‘git’, ‘branch’, ‘–show-current’]’ returned non-zero exit status 128.

The folder is located as a folder entitled ‘Experiment Folder’ which is located on the desktop.

I’m sorry, I don’t understand the code. I created the experiment in builder.

I am registered with a Pavlovia account to which my PsychoPy is logged into and I have created a Project awaiting the upload.

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Thnx! I’m not totally sure what’s going wrong, but I’ve got a hunch as how you could fix it:

  1. Enable showing hidden folders in your file explorer
  2. Inside your experiment folder there should be a folder named “.git”, delete that folder
  3. Then try to sync again
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Hi, thanks for the suggestion, however we get the same result.

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In that case, I’ll recategorize this post under “Builder”, so that people with more expertise in this part can pick it up. Hope it will work out soon!

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Hi! Yes the issue was solved. I created a new experiment folder under \Users\ and that solved the issue.

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Hi there,

I’m encountering the same error but this time the previous solution doesn’t work anymore. I have the experiment file at \Users\

I think the error occurs because the builder can’t generate js files. The same error occurs when I clicked on exporting the html or the JS button.

The error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/app/builder/builder.py”, line 1339, in onPavloviaRun
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/app/builder/builder.py”, line 759, in fileExport
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/scripts/psyexpCompile.py”, line 73, in generateScript
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/scripts/psyexpCompile.py”, line 242, in compileScript
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/scripts/psyexpCompile.py”, line 214, in _makeTarget
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/experiment/_experiment.py”, line 266, in writeScript
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/experiment/routine.py”, line 340, in writeEachFrameCodeJS
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/experiment/components/_base.py”, line 763, in writeFrameCodeJS
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/experiment/components/_base.py”, line 302, in writeStartTestCodeJS
TypeError: str returned non-string (type NoneType)

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Hi, was there ever a fix found for this? I am experiencing a similar problem.

I am working on Mac OS Catalina. I have followed the previous steps including making a new folder under /Users/ and removing hidden .git files. A previous version of this experiment worked on pavlovia 6 months ago, but uploading this to a new project has not been possible so far.
Following advice on other posts I reverted to psychopy 2021.1.1 to try to enable syncing with psychopy (syncing with Psychopy 2022 on Mac leads to a crash). However, I am still unable to sync with pavlovia- the is the error message I receive:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/app/builder/builder.py”, line 1325, in onPavloviaSync
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/app/builder/builder.py”, line 1416, in project
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/projects/pavlovia.py”, line 1068, in getProject
File “/Applications/PsychoPy.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/projects/pavlovia.py”, line 1049, in getGitRoot
File “subprocess.pyc”, line 356, in check_output
File “subprocess.pyc”, line 438, in run
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘[‘git’, ‘branch’, ‘—show-current’]’ returned non-zero exit status 128.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!