What is <project name>.OLD.0?

Question

One of our users has in her “Paratext 8 Projects” folder a second copy of the project, which is in a folder whose name is the project short name with “OLD.0” appended to it.

Can anyone tell me how it might have got there?

I discovered it because Send/Receive threw an error regarding a file it said was missing from this folder.

So question #2 would be: why is S/R trying to sync this old version of the project? It’s not listed in the S/R dialog box.

Answer 1

A OLD project folders are only ever created during a S/R where the user already has a different project with the same name as one they are newly pulling. For example, if I have a project IUO on my machine and you would share a different project IUO with me, if I would try S/R the IUO that you shared with me, my existing IUO project would be renamed to IUO.OLD.0.

Note that in newer versions of Paratext 8, it should now move the folder to a _Backups folder instead of leaving it in the root settings folder.

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Thanks.

And my question #2?

Answer 2

The OLD folders are not considered valid projects so you will likely get errors whenever Paratext attempts to refresh the available projects. I wouldn’t expect an error during S/R about it, though, but maybe it does do a refresh of the available projects.
Does the same error occur when Paratext is starting?