File_Load_Error_Stroop

Online experiments
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URL of experiment: questionnaire tester [PsychoPy]

Description of the problem: I am putting together a psychopy demo with allot of the common experiments and features the builder can be used for. When I run this offline, it runs perfectly (apart from the youtube embedded section but that’s expected). However, when I push online, I get the error: "when downloading the resources for experiment: YT_Tester_Retry* unable to download resource: …/…/…/Coding Training/PsychoPy/stroop-master/trialTypes.xls (FILE_LOAD_ERROR)

What have I done to solve the issue: I assume the issue is with getting the necessary files locally from my PC to Pavlovia during launch. As such, I tried re-creating my loops and linking the necessary source files again to see if the issue was with the path that the experiment was following to find the source files.
I also looked at other posts of the same error on the forum but these all relate to png files where my error is coming from a simple Stroop task that does not use any pngs but uses an excel file with color and text components to create the stimuli.

I am quite new to psychopy so I hope the above is correct and makes sense, please let me know if any further information is needed.

Thank you for your help!

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Maybe it helps to define the loop file as " trialTypes.xls" without any path in the builder. Then use “Experiment-Settings - Online - Additional Ressources” to add the excel file to the online resource content.

This could be a save way to ensure that the file is downloaded and correctly linked in the loop - in online and offline context.

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Make a copy of your Excel file in each experiment rather than trying to load an Excel file from a different folder.

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Thank you both! Yes, this was the issue I had copied the entire folder from the original experiment with the excel file in it in the folder for the new experiment, once I replaced this with a copy of relevant excel file it resolved the issue.