Changing project directory in version 5

Data Management
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I’ve copied a project to a new location. This command used to work:

cryosparcm cli "update_project_directory('Pxxx', '/new/project/path')"

but is now giving me…

NameError: name 'update_project_directory' is not defined

I presume this is a version 4 vs 5 problem. What is the version 5 equivalent?

Thanks,
Matthew

2

Hi Matthew, we’ve removed official support for changing a project directory like this in v5, the next time you have to do this, I recommend using Archive/Unarchive operations, for added safety.

As a workaround to resolve this, you can use the following command:

cryosparcm cli 'db.projects.update_one({"uid": "Pxxx"}, {"$set": {"project_dir": "/new/project/path"}}).modified_count'

Edit: If you prefer to use command-line over the Archive/Unarchive functions in the UI, you can do this:

cryosparcm cli 'api.projects.archive("Pxx")'
mv /old/project/path /new/project/path  # move the project
cryosparcm cli 'api.projects.unarchive("Pxx", path="/new/project/path")'
3

Thanks nfrasser.

I did this:

cryosparcm cli 'db.projects.update_one({"uid:": "P566"}, {"$set": {"project_dir": "/new/project/path"}}).modified_count'

It returned 0 and the directory shown in the UI is still the old one. I wonder if “uid” is the right thing to search on.

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Hi @mcahn, are you sure you selected the right project UID? Could you show me the output of these commands?

cryosparcm cli 'api.projects.find_one("P566").project_dir'
cryosparcm cli 'db.projects.update_one({"uid:": "P566"}, {"$set": {"project_dir": "/new/project/path"}}).matched_count'
cryosparcm cli 'api.projects.find_one("P566").project_dir'

If you see

Response data:
{
    "detail": "Project P566 not found"
}

This means the project is not available in the instance you are connecting to.

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Hi @nfrasser ,

Yes, I’m sure it’s P566. Here are the results of those commands…

$ cryosparcm cli 'api.projects.find_one("P566").project_dir'
/scratch/gpfs/CRYOEM/jimahlab/ar5531/CS-pfdyn3-k71a-r256k-cl-dops

$ cryosparcm cli 'db.projects.update_one({"uid:": "P566"}, {"$set": {"project_dir": "/projects/JIMAH/ar5531/CS-pfdyn3-k71a-r256k-cl-dops"}}).matched_count'
0

$ cryosparcm cli 'api.projects.find_one("P566").project_dir'
/scratch/gpfs/CRYOEM/jimahlab/ar5531/CS-pfdyn3-k71a-r256k-cl-dops

It seems that find_one can find the project, but update_one can’t find the project.

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Ah I didn’t notice the typo in the filter: it should be uid, not uid: (extra colon in the string). Try this:

cryosparcm cli 'db.projects.update_one({"uid": "P566"}, {"$set": {"project_dir": "/projects/JIMAH/ar5531/CS-pfdyn3-k71a-r256k-cl-dops"}}).matched_count'
7

Thanks very much, sorry I didn’t catch that. Works now…

$ cryosparcm cli 'db.projects.update_one({"uid": "P566"}, {"$set": {"project_dir":"/projects/JIMAH/ar5531/CS-pfdyn3-k71a-r256k-cl-dops"}}).matched_count'
1
$ cryosparcm cli 'api.projects.find_one("P566").project_dir'
/projects/JIMAH/ar5531/CS-pfdyn3-k71a-r256k-cl-dops
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