.js files in Pavlovia don't update when syncing from Builder

Online experiments
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Hi everyone,

I am very new to both PsychoPy and Pavlovia, but need to use them both to edit an existing experiment for my Master’s thesis. So here’s the problem:

I have an existing experiment designed in PsychoPy 2020.1.2 from a previous thesis. I need to make some changes, that is deleting a few routines and adding a few others.

The experiment won’t run locally on my laptop, since the woman who designed it didn’t really have a clue what she was doing either, and once she made all the changes to the PsychoPy project to upload it to Pavlovia (basically the Python → JS conversions), it worked there (because of JS) but not locally in PsychoPy. Now I am trying to make changes in PsychoPy Builder, but everytime I wanna check if they worked, I have to sync it with Pavlovia to run it online.

The problem:

Pavlovia does not update my .js files once I sync the changes in Builder, only the .psyexp, so it only runs the old version. How can I tell Pavlovia it needs to update the html folder as well?

I tried clearing my cache as well as downgrading to the same version as the original experiment, but without success.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Dear Caro,

it is best advised to have a version running locally. It is not really clear to me whether, your current experiment runs locally. When PsychoPy does not run locally, it does generate a (probably) functioning JS-file. So you might want to check this first. See the crib sheet to solve PsychoPy to PsychoJS problems.

To resolve sync-problems you can delete the online project, delete the .git folder and .gitignore file and create a new project, best using a different project name (see also the crib sheet).

If you need more help, you might want to either give access to your online project or upload a toy version of your experiment along with stimuli needed.

Best wishes jens