Need to reinstall Django modules after every venv restart

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Hi I am facing an issue I do not understand.

I created a Django webapp project which I have residing on a GitHub repository.

I have recently had the need to revisit this project to add new features. So I cloned the project to a local PC (A MAC running python and my VS Code environment).

I created a Python venv machine to contain everything I need within for this project. This works great and I can code the new features and run the App in my local browser.

The issue I am having is every time I shut my PC off at night then restart in the morning, after activating the venv a number (not all) of the installed modules need to be reinstalled before my project will let me run the server.

While I can get around this by spending the 10 minutes or so everyday reinstalling modules. Its frustrating and I do not understand why this is occurring?

All advice greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Duncan

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Try to share the error message in your shell when your start again your PC in the morning

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Hi I am now struggling to replicate the issue. I think I may have closed my venv session without first deactivating it (by simply closing VSCode - which I assume crashed out of the venv session rather ungracefully). I deactivated my latest session and then reactivated it and did not get the same errors when I ran the virtual Django server. I had installed the modules Django was complaining about during the session I simply closed so the have to assume deactivation saves some configuration as it leaves the venv. Anyway if the issue pops back up after a PC shutdown I’ll post the error here. Thanks D

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