I’m currently in the process of trying to write up some data from online experiments that students ran for undergraduate thesis projects 5–7 years ago. As part of this, I’m keen to run through the experiments so that I can take screenshots which I intend to then use in the manuscript to provide examples of the displays participants saw, but I’m running into two different problems with doing so:
- In some cases, everything seems to have disappeared from the project repository, including the data and all experimental code/resources. Fortunately I have the data saved elsewhere, but I don’t always have the final js code saved locally (I sometimes edited it a bit online at the time to iron out bugs that weren’t apparent until running it in a browser).
- In some cases the data and code are there, but for whatever reason the experiments no longer successfully run. For instance, one experiment hangs on the “initialising the experiment” screen, and the console in Firefox gives me a bunch of error messages of the form, “Loading module from was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”)”, pertaining to all relevant modules (core, visual, sound etc.).
I’ve found some other topics on the forum concerning problems similar to the first (e.g., here), and also the second (e.g., here), but the first is not something I can fix myself and the second doesn’t seem to be applicable (e.g., because I haven’t changed the experiment name, I can see no reason why it would have worked years ago but not work now). As such, I’d appreciate any help anyone can provide on either of these issues.