Send/Receive - "Paratext sent the entire project..." message

Question

For projects already uploaded via Send/Receive, why is there now a message that “Paratext sent the entire project?”

Is this information (that the entire project got uploaded) helpful for users?

Answer 1

That message should only appear when the project does not exist on the server and the user is sending the entire project history to the server. Subsequent S/R’s should show a summary of what changed instead.

If you are seeing that message after the project already exists on the S/R server, then that sounds like a bug. Note that when doing a S/R for the first time for a newly migrated project, you are, indeed, sending the entire project to the S/R server since the PT7 and PT8 S/R servers are separate.

Whether it’s “helpful” for users is another matter. I would argue, at the very least, it’s much more helpful than what used to happen - which is you’d get a “here’s what changed” message for the entire project history.

Comments

I am 100% certain I got this message today from projects that have been on the Pt8 S/R server for at least one month. I tested this with 4 shared projects (3 standard and 1 consultant notes) and the same message appeared with each.

The message only occurs once. If I do S/R again (with or without changes) the “entire project sent” does not appear. The messaging goes back to the standard message.

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Has there been a significant change to the PT8 server or DBL in the past month?

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anon198078:

I am 100% certain I got this message today from projects that have been on the Pt8 S/R server for at least one month. I tested this with 4 shared projects (3 standard and 1 consultant notes) and the same message appeared with each.

The message only occurs once. If I do S/R again (with or without changes) the “entire project sent” does not appear. The messaging goes back to the standard message.

There are two messages - one for sending the entire project and one for receiving the entire project. Are you sure it’s saying that they were sent and not received (i.e. is it marked as “New” on the S/R dialog)? Are you sure they already existed on the S/R server (i.e. is it marked as “Edited” on the S/R dialog)? Are you maybe doing a S/R to a non-internet source that didn’t have the project before?

I’m sorry to question you, but looking at the code, it doesn’t look like there is any way for you to get that message without it creating a brand new project on the server (which would result in an error if the project already existed). And the fact that you say it only happens once per project says to me that it’s working correctly.

anon044949:

Has there been a significant change to the PT8 server or DBL in the past month?

Nope