I am trying to install Psychtoolbox but it seems to fail. The message reads ‘FILEATTRIB failed. Psychtoolbox will still work properly for you and other users […]. You can now use your newly installed ‘beta’-flavor Psychtoolbox.’
However, when I searched for relevant folders that should be installed in my computer (‘psychtool’) I got nothing.
we need more details, whats the context of that error message?
Are you installing in a location that you have write access to? If not, chose another location. Thats my first guess
I made another attempt that went a little better, but still doesn’t work. According to the message, there is some synchronization failure.
The (whole) message I get now is the following:
Psychtoolbox_installer
DownloadPsychtoolbox(‘C:\Users\chsi\Desktop\Research\UAud\Autumn-Winter_2021-22\Matlab_UAud_App\Study_protocol\Cognitive_testing\Digit_Span’,‘beta’,‘’, 0, 0)
Requested flavor is: beta
Requested location for the Psychtoolbox folder is inside: C:\Users\chsi\Desktop\Research\UAud\Autumn-Winter_2021-22\Matlab_UAud_App\Study_protocol\Cognitive_testing\Digit_Span
Using optimal client for subversion checkout.
Good. Your privileges suffice for the requested installation into folder C:\Users\chsi\Desktop\Research\UAud\Autumn-Winter_2021-22\Matlab_UAud_App\Study_protocol\Cognitive_testing\Digit_Span.
I will now download the latest Psychtoolbox for Windows.
Requested flavor is: beta
Target folder for installation: C:\Users\chsi\Desktop\Research\UAud\Autumn-Winter_2021-22\Matlab_UAud_App\Study_protocol\Cognitive_testing\Digit_Span
Downloading via Matlabs integrated SVNKit: This can take multiple minutes.
There may be no output to this window to indicate progress until the download is complete.
Please be patient …
Download of SVN revision 12781 succeeded!
Now adding the new Psychtoolbox folder (and all its subfolders) to your MATLAB / OCTAVE path.
Success.
Now setting permissions to allow everyone to write to the Psychtoolbox folder. This will
allow future updates by every user on this machine without requiring administrator privileges.
Success.
You can now use your newly installed ‘beta’-flavor Psychtoolbox. Enjoy!
Whenever you want to upgrade your Psychtoolbox to the latest ‘beta’ version, just
run the UpdatePsychtoolbox script.
Running post-install routine…
Creating a startup.m file for Psychtoolbox at C:\Users\chsi\Desktop\Research\UAud\Autumn-Winter_2021-22\Matlab_UAud_App\Study_protocol\Cognitive_testing\Digit_Span\Psychtoolbox\PsychInitialize\startup.m
PsychStartup: Adding path of installed GStreamer runtime to library path. [C:\gstreamer\1.0\msvc_x86_64\bin]
Matlab release 2014b or later detected. Will prepend the following
folder to your Matlab path: C:\Users\chsi\Desktop\Research\UAud\Autumn-Winter_2021-22\Matlab_UAud_App\Study_protocol\Cognitive_testing\Digit_Span\Psychtoolbox\PsychBasic\MatlabWindowsFilesR2007a\ …
*** Matlab’s Static Java classpath definition file modified. You will have to restart Matlab to enable use of the new Java components. ***
Press RETURN or ENTER to confirm you read and understood the above message.
PTB-INFO: Multi-display setup in explicit multi-display mode detected. Using the following mapping:
PTB-INFO: Screen 0 corresponds to the full Windows desktop area. Useful for stereo presentations in stereomode=4 …
PTB-INFO: Screen 1 corresponds to the display area of the monitor with the Windows-internal name \.\DISPLAY2 …
PTB-INFO: Screen 2 corresponds to the display area of the monitor with the Windows-internal name \.\DISPLAY3 …
PTB-INFO: Your version of Matlab 64-Bit is global system DPI aware. On Windows-8 or later, fullscreen onscreen windows will only work
PTB-INFO: properly timing-wise when displayed on displays with the same pixel density as your systems primary display monitor.
PTB-INFO: For your multi-display setup the stimulus display monitor must have a DPI of (96, 96), matching that of
PTB-INFO: your primary display monitor. Ideally you will only display on the primary display in the first place.
PTB-INFO: Displaying on anything with a different DPI will cause mysterious visual timing problems, sync failures etc.
PTB-INFO: Read ‘help RetinaDisplay’ for more info on this topic.
Trying to trigger an update of the fontconfig cache if that should prove neccessary.
This may take a couple of seconds, or sometimes even minutes. Please be patient…
----- ! PTB - ERROR: SYNCHRONIZATION FAILURE ! -----
One or more internal checks (see Warnings above) indicate that synchronization
of Psychtoolbox to the vertical retrace (VBL) is not working on your setup.
This will seriously impair proper stimulus presentation and stimulus presentation timing!
Please read ‘help SyncTrouble’ for information about how to solve or work-around the problem.
You can force Psychtoolbox to continue, despite the severe problems, by adding the command
Screen(‘Preference’, ‘SkipSyncTests’, 1); at the top of your script, if you really know what you are doing.
Warning: Something went wrong with high-quality text renderer setup. Read ‘help DrawTextPlugin’ for troubleshooting.
In PsychtoolboxPostInstallRoutine (line 705)
In Psychtoolbox_installer (line 785)
Press Return key to continue.
Done with post-installation. Psychtoolbox is ready for use.
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Almost all of the material contained in the Psychtoolbox-3 distribution
is free-software and/or open-source software under a OSI (http://www.opensource.org/)
approved license. Most material is covered by the MIT license or a MIT compatible license.
A few internal libraries and components are covered by other free software
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exception for use with Mathworks proprietary Matlab application. A very few components,
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Please read the license text and copyright info in the Psychtoolbox file
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Use of Psychtoolbox-3 components implies that you have read, understood and accepted
the licensing conditions.
However, in a nutshell, if you just use Psychtoolbox for your research, our licenses
don’t restrict you in any practically relevant way. Commercial users, developers or
redistributors should make sure they understood the licenses for the components they use.
If in doubt, contact one of the Psychtoolbox developers, or the original authors of the
components you want to use, modify, merge or redistribute with other software.
Your standard Psychtoolbox distribution comes without the source code for
the binary plugins (the MEX files). If you want to access the corresponding
source code, please type “help UseTheSource” for specific download instructions.
BEGINNERS READ THIS:
If you are new to the Psychtoolbox, you might try this:
help Psychtoolbox
Psychtoolbox website, which also links to a tutorial for basic use cases:
web http://www.psychtoolbox.org -browser
Please make sure that you have a look at the detailed ECVP 2013 tutorial slides
in the PDF file PTBTutorial-ECVP2013.pdf
in the Psychtoolbox/PsychDocumentation subfolder for an overview of differences
between Psychtoolbox-2 and Psychtoolbox-3 and proper use of basic features. That
folder contains various additional helpful information for use of Psychtoolbox.
Please also familiarize yourself with the demos contained in the PsychDemos subfolder
and its subfolders. They show best practices for many common tasks and are generally
well documented.
IMPORTANT NEWS:
You can now financially contribute to Psychtoolbox sustainability, upkeep and continued
improvement by buying a community membership, which also includes some paid support
for questions regarding its use, or issues you may have with it. We also offer paid
feature development and other useful commercial services.
Please type ‘PsychPaidSupportAndServices’ to learn more.
Enjoy!
Press RETURN or ENTER to confirm you read and understood the above message.
your install was successful. read help SyncTrouble or search on the forum as the message suggests
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Indeed. That sync failure was a false alert. I’ve just improved the code to deal with this better from now on.
You may want to run UpdatePsychtoolbox to update to that fixed release and to make sure the step of rebuilding the fontconfig cache actually executes instead of failing due to false alert.
-mario