Data not being saved on gitlab BUT can be downloaded from pavlovia page

Hi, I’m experiencing the same issue as above. I’m able to download my data via pavlovia directly, but it is not being pushed to gitlab. My experiment link is this: Food Collection Task
My experiment status is running and it is covered by an active license. My data is being saved as CSV and I also have save incomplete results as “on”.

I don’t think it is an issue with participants ending simultaneously as I was testing it myself an the issue still exists.

Please let me know what I should do to resolve this. Thank you so much!

Hi! I am experiencing the same issue. My team is running a study and participant data is not being saved into gitlab. We are also seeing that data can be downloaded via pavlovia directly, but it is not being pushed to gitlab. My data should be saved as a CSV and have save incomplete results as “on.” I agree with above that after my participant was having errors I tested the issue on my end and there was still no data in gitlab. Please let me know how to fix this and resolve this soon. Thank you!!!

New theory. Does everyone having this issue have periodic saving turned on?

We expierence the same, recognized it yesterday, tested it minutes ago (27.02.26, 10:20).
Pavlovia commiter is not pushing data files anymore.
Saving as .csv, “Save incomplete results” is on, “Save periodically” is off.

Same here (Saving as .csv, “Save incomplete results” is on, “Save periodically” is off)

Hi, sorry for the delay. Saving in CSV only. Periodic saving is off since I’m running on credits (but I do have save incomplete results toggled).

I don’t have periodic saving on but do have save incomplete results on as well!

Hi all,

To jump in on this issue, I also am having this problem. I would give my experiment URL, but I’m currently undergoing a test-rest data collection and trying to make sure that data parsing later for the two sessions are easier.

I have the same settings as other stated earlier. Data is set to save incomplete results, in CSV format, and save periodically is off (due to it being a jsPsych experiment). My experiment is a jsPsych scripted experiment that redirects to SONA after completion.

Thank you!

I do have periodic saving on.

Some other possibly helpful information: I am recruiting through Prolific, but it’s only pilot data collection so I just had 6 participants running at the same time. As others have stated, I can confirm that when I tested it myself the issue was the same.

For my study, periodic saving is turned off, and save incompletes is turned on. Multiple participants can submit simultaneously, but I encountered my issue while doing test runs myself, one at a time, with a good bit of time (a couple hours) between two of the test runs.

Same thing here! Did anyone in the past two years figure this out yet? Also, I’ve tried both with and without periodic saving and it didn’t seem to make a difference.

I noticed that this is happening to me as well. It was fine up until 5 days ago after which the data does not save to Gitlab but I can download it from Pavlovia. These are my settings:

Has there been any resolution to this? Thank you.

Hi! I am also having this issue, and it started 1 day ago. I noticed that my gitlab data folder is not being updated, but I can download the data from Pavlovia. I think there’s an issue with how Pavlovia and gitlab are talking to each other.

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I am having this exact same issue! Along with 3 others in my lab. We can download data from pavlovia. However, the last day the data saved successfully from Pavlovia to gitlab repo was 2.25.2026.

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I’m having this issue as well. I have 3 different experiments running on Pavlovia, all of which stopped showing new saved data on the gitlab at around the same time (sometime between the night of the 25/02 and the morning of the 26/02, UK time), but the data seems to be there when I hit “download results” on Pavlovia (at least, the versions I created to try and debug the problem are there; also, only thought to check in the Pavlovia results thanks to this thread, so thank you all for that!). For all experiments, I’m using the csv format with *no* saving of incomplete results or periodic saving. Pavlovia seems to suggest that everything was completing fine (i.e., no aborted sessions), and I’m using Pavlovia essentially as server space (i.e., it’s all custom Javascript code, with some jspsych functionality to save the data; exact code for saving is below in case it’s helpful). My guess would be that it’s some issue on gitlab’s side though, given the data all seems to be fine through Pavlovia?

Nathan

var resultsTrial = {

type: ‘call-function’,

func: function() { return output_txt; }

};

var pavlovia_init = {

type: “pavlovia”,

command: “init”

};

var pavlovia_finish = {

type: “pavlovia”,

command: “finish”,

participantId: username

};

jsPsych.init({

timeline: [ pavlovia_init, resultsTrial, pavlovia_finish ],

on_finish: thankYouMessage

});

Also, if it helps, since 2.25:

  • I have been able to git push changes I make to the index.html file for my task from the clone of the repo on my local machine to the gitlab repo and those changes are reflected when I take the task through the pavlovia link.

  • However, I am still unable to git pull data from the gitlab repo to my local machine (this makes sense since when I check the data folder in the gitlab.pavlovia repo the data files from before 2.25 are missing even though they are available in the pavlovia csv download).

Dear all,

There is currently an issue with the synchronisation between the pavlovia back-end and GitLab. I am working on it.

In the mean time, rest assured that your experiment results are being collected, nothing is lost. You can get the results using the [Download results] button on your pavlovia.org experiment page.

I would hope that the issue will be solved quickly.

With my apologies for the mishap!

Alain

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Apitiot (I got a message saying new users can’t tag other users otherwise I would have),

I’m not sure if you’ve already implemented changes, but it appears that data synchronization is working again for my study. I just tested a few more times and it looks like my data is now being saved to both pavlovia and gitlab once more. Just wanted to let you know in case that helps with the work you are doing on the back end.

Thanks for all your work on this issue and helping us to resolve it!

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Yes indeed. I fixed it a few minutes ago and am currently monitoring the situation. It appears that all is well.

Certainly I am very glad that it is the case for you.

It will take me a day or so to make sure that everyone’s previously acquired data is available on GitLab.

But we are back.

Again, with my apologies for the problem, which was caused by an update to GitLab.

Alain

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