# Unable to change status to 'Running'

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-change-status-to-running/27335>\
**Category:** jsPsych\
**Tags:** pavlovia\
**Created:** [February 10, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-change-status-to-running/27335 "2022-02-10T19:29:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![bmchardy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/bmchardy/32/32755_2.png) [@bmchardy](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/bmchardy)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-change-status-to-running/27335/1 "2022-02-10T19:29:17Z")

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**URL of experiment:** N/A

**Description of the problem:**

Yesterday, I inactivated a previously running study and now when I try to change the status back to ‘Running’ I am provided with the below two messages followed by nothing

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/psychopy/original/3X/a/8/a805bb3212de837268a51604456b163ab191101d.png)

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/psychopy/original/3X/8/b/8b38d707c7a1cfb7de856db19942d9e8bfdde8b4.png)

**Steps taken to resolve:** I have waited over 24 hours for the status to be changed with no success. I have also re-uploaded the project to Gitlab with an entirely new name and am still having the same issues.

The code has not changed since it was running, so I am certain there are no bugs.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this issue? Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![dongyf1997](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@dongyf1997](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/dongyf1997)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 6:14am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-change-status-to-running/27335/2 "2022-02-11T06:14:48Z")

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Same issue

URL of experiment:

Description of the problem:This problem has existed since yesterday. I want to change the experimental state to pilot, but the state cannot be changed. The page keeps showing the following prompts  
 ![1644545967(1)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/psychopy/original/3X/c/5/c518b33612e4db8f5dd79680586418262a3b3cbb.png)

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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:** [February 14, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-change-status-to-running/27335/4 "2022-02-14T13:18:30Z")

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Good afternoon @bmchardy and @dongyf1997,

Could you share the complete path of your experiments so I can have a look at our server logs?  
Cheers,

Alain

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**Author:** ![bmchardy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/bmchardy/32/32755_2.png) [@bmchardy](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/bmchardy)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-change-status-to-running/27335/5 "2022-02-14T21:30:23Z")

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Absolutely!

My project is hosted at [Sign in · GitLab](https://gitlab.pavlovia.org/bmchardy/snake) (privately) and has the Project ID 202860

Thanks for looking into this!

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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:** [February 15, 2022, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-change-status-to-running/27335/6 "2022-02-15T09:50:33Z")

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Thank you.

The issue stems from your already having a lib directory in your project, which prevents the [pavlovia.org](http://pavlovia.org) back-end server from linking its own lib directory.  
Changing your lib directory to a different name should do the trick.  
I am currently working on making that lib error visible to designers, so they can better understand what is going on.

Incidentally, jsPsych version 6.2.0 and 6.3.0 are now available on [pavlovia.org](http://pavlovia.org), together with the official plugins packaged with the releases, so you do not need to have 6.2.0 in your actual project (I am working on a pavlovia plugin for jsPsych 7, which should be available in the coming days).

Best wishes,

Alain

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**Author:** ![bmchardy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/bmchardy/32/32755_2.png) [@bmchardy](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/bmchardy)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-change-status-to-running/27335/7 "2022-02-16T16:31:40Z")

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Thanks very much for your help! Changing the directory name to `library` seemed to fix my problem. Going forward I’ll only reference `lib` if I’m referring to the built-in library.

Thanks again!

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**Author:** ![sophie\_bouton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/sophie_bouton/32/34189_2.png) [@sophie\_bouton](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/sophie_bouton)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 10:57am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-change-status-to-running/27335/9 "2022-05-20T10:57:08Z")

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I have the same problem today, and this solution did not work for me… Does anyone have any other ideas on how to solve this issue? Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![wakecarter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/wakecarter/32/5753_2.png) [@wakecarter](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/wakecarter)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/unable-to-change-status-to-running/27335/10 "2022-05-24T10:46:26Z")

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Are you using jsPsych or PsychoJS?

Are you the owner of the experiment or a collaborator?