Experiment not running online/unhandled internal errors when syncing

Online experiments
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URL of experiment: https://run.pavlovia.org/sydperry/hnp

Description of the problem:
I have had issues when syncing my experiment to my Pavlovia account. I finally got it to sync but now every time I try to resync/update by clicking the globe icon in builder view it brings up the following unhandled internal error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment_experiment.py”, line 774, in findPathsInFile
filePath = eval(filePath)
File “”, line 1, in
NameError: name ‘expInfo’ is not defined

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\builder\builder.py”, line 1226, in onPavloviaSync
self.fileExport(htmlPath=htmlPath)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\builder\builder.py”, line 719, in fileExport
target=“PsychoJS”)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\scripts\psyexpCompile.py”, line 73, in generateScript
compileScript(infile=exp, version=None, outfile=filename)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\scripts\psyexpCompile.py”, line 242, in compileScript
_makeTarget(thisExp, outfile, targetOutput)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\scripts\psyexpCompile.py”, line 214, in _makeTarget
script = thisExp.writeScript(outfile, target=targetOutput, modular=True)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment_experiment.py”, line 212, in writeScript
self_copy.flow.writeFlowSchedulerJS(script)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment\flow.py”, line 290, in writeFlowSchedulerJS
resourceFiles = set([resource[‘rel’].replace("\", “/”) for resource in self.exp.getResourceFiles()])
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment_experiment.py”, line 821, in getResourceFiles
condsPaths = findPathsInFile(params[‘conditionsFile’].val)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment_experiment.py”, line 783, in findPathsInFile
[getPaths(condFile) for condFile in os.listdir(expPath)
NotADirectoryError: [WinError 267] The directory name is invalid: ‘C:\Users\jaepe\OneDrive\Desktop\HNI.experiment4\HNP.js’

Furthermore, when trying to pilot my experiment it doesn’t take any time to upload resources (I have over 1,000 and it used to take a long time to upload them). After I fill in the participant and session info and click okay it just says “Closing the session, please wait a few moments” then “Thankyou for your patience” then the experiment ends.

Any help in figuring this out would be greatly appreciated!

2

Some part of your experiment appears to be referring to C:\Users\jaepe\OneDrive\Desktop\HNI.experiment4 and it looks like that folder doesn’t exist. Maybe it’s One Drive with a space instead?

3

C:\Users\jaepe\OneDrive\Desktop\HNI.experiment4

I’ve copied and pasted the file location above. There doesn’t seem to be any space needed.

4

I think it was a bug of that version of PsychoPy (2020.1). I downloaded the latest version of PsychoPy and everything ran great until my text response section which resulted in the following error

  • TypeError: Cannot read property ‘clearEvents’ of undefined
5

The solution to this error can be found on the forum link above.

6

I am also being told that ‘expInfo’ is not defined. I was using expInfo[‘group’] to determine which condition Excel file to use. What is even more confusing, is that I created condition Excel files using expInfo[‘group’] for two loops previously and everything worked flawlessly. I am currently using 2020.2.10. I have not updated because I was worried about compatibility and am almost done creating my paradigms.

The full error from the PsychoPy unhandled error is as follows:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment_experiment.py”, line 808, in findPathsInFile
filePath = eval(filePath)
File “”, line 1, in
NameError: name ‘expInfo’ is not defined

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\builder\builder.py”, line 1221, in onPavloviaSync
self.fileExport(htmlPath=htmlPath)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\app\builder\builder.py”, line 719, in fileExport
target=“PsychoJS”)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\scripts\psyexpCompile.py”, line 73, in generateScript
compileScript(infile=exp, version=None, outfile=filename)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\scripts\psyexpCompile.py”, line 242, in compileScript
_makeTarget(thisExp, outfile, targetOutput)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\scripts\psyexpCompile.py”, line 214, in _makeTarget
script = thisExp.writeScript(outfile, target=targetOutput, modular=True)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment_experiment.py”, line 223, in writeScript
self_copy.flow.writeFlowSchedulerJS(script)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment\flow.py”, line 289, in writeFlowSchedulerJS
resourceFiles = set([resource[‘rel’].replace("\", “/”) for resource in self.exp.getResourceFiles()])
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment_experiment.py”, line 856, in getResourceFiles
condsPaths = findPathsInFile(params[‘conditionsFile’].val)
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment_experiment.py”, line 822, in findPathsInFile
files.extend(findPathsInFile(str(condFile)))
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment_experiment.py”, line 808, in findPathsInFile
filePath = eval(filePath)
File “”, line 1
C:\Users\knfer\Documents\dissertation\stressors~$ReviewConditionB.xlsx
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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Not evaluating expInfo is not itself a problem. The problem is with the line trying to extract C:\Users\knfer\Documents\dissertation\stressors~$ReviewConditionB.xlsx
Maybe you have another file that refers to this location incorrectly? Maybe you’ve inserted a $ where it wasn’t needed? Hard to know what you’ve done wrong from this, but it’s something to do with how you’ve specified that filename I think

8

Sorry for the delay in response, I must have missed the notification. It looks like I did update the file that day (going back to my commits).

However, I was having an issue where I could sync to Pavlovia only a single time and then would receive an unhandled error (even for something like a text stimulus update). For this, I believe what ended up working was restarting my computer, then syncing. But, actually checking/piloting in Pavlovia on a different computer. The issue seemed to occur only when I also connected to Pavlovia from the same computer. When this error was most persistent, I ended up working between two different computers. After a day, whatever the error was seemed to correct itself and then I could do everything from the same machine. I never figured out what was causing the issue.