# Empty repository for old project "Semantic-thought-probing", possibly not migrated to the new GitLab server

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/empty-repository-for-old-project-semantic-thought-probing-possibly-not-migrated-to-the-new-gitlab-server/48091>\
**Category:** Online experiments\
**Tags:** pavlovia\
**Created:** [October 7, 2026, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/empty-repository-for-old-project-semantic-thought-probing-possibly-not-migrated-to-the-new-gitlab-server/48091 "2026-10-07T11:56:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nicobruno92](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/nicobruno92/32/31957_2.png) [@Nicobruno92](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Nicobruno92)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/empty-repository-for-old-project-semantic-thought-probing-possibly-not-migrated-to-the-new-gitlab-server/48091/1 "2026-10-07T11:56:10Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to resume an old experiment, but my project “Semantic-thought-probing” on Pavlovia now appears empty. The project page still exists under my account, but it shows “The repository for this project does not exist”.

- Pavlovia username: nicobruno

- Project URL: [Sign in · GitLab](https://gitlab.pavlovia.org/nicobruno/semantic-thought-probing)
- Project created: April 2020

The project definitely had content before (the experiment files and, I believe, a git history), so I don’t think the repo was never created.

This looks very similar to the case described in this thread, where old repositories had not been migrated to the new server but were still available and were restored by the team:

> [@Problem downloading data from PavloviA](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/problem-downloading-data-from-pavlovia/42499):
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> Hi I am trying to download some old data for reanalysis and I am getting an error from Pavlovia, I went to git to look in the project and it says no repo exists, and then a quick checks shows that all of my projects on gitlab are empty. [2024-10-17\_10-43-53] Other expt data is downloading. Any advice? Thanks Glen

Could someone from the team check whether the repository for this project still exists on the old server and restore it if possible? If other old projects under my account were affected in the same way, I would be grateful if you could restore them too.

I haven’t deleted or modified the project since noticing this, so that nothing gets in the way of a restore.

Thank you very much for your help!  
Nico

cc @apitiot, since you helped with the case in that thread.

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**Author:** ![apitiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@apitiot](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/apitiot)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2026, 9:02am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/empty-repository-for-old-project-semantic-thought-probing-possibly-not-migrated-to-the-new-gitlab-server/48091/2 "2026-10-13T09:02:15Z")

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Hello @Nicobruno92 ,

Indeed this is a very, very old project that was not migrated to the new server.

I’ve just taken care of it now, together with the other two. You are good to go.

Best wishes,

Alain

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**Author:** ![Nicobruno92](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/nicobruno92/32/31957_2.png) [@Nicobruno92](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Nicobruno92)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/empty-repository-for-old-project-semantic-thought-probing-possibly-not-migrated-to-the-new-gitlab-server/48091/3 "2026-10-16T13:59:01Z")

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Thank you @apitiot !! This is great!

I know it is a really old project, but I needed it back!

Thank you again!