Loading a .pdf in PAWLS causes the user's "_annotations.json" file in the folder to be overwritten with empty annotations

[eliotpbrenner]

I'm having an issue which is causing all annotations (for example from the pre-annotation command "pawls preannotate...") stored in the directory of the .pdf to be overwritten with the following, when I actually load the .pdf in PAWLS

{"annotations": [], "relations": []}

What I want instead (and what happens with a previous version of PAWLS running on another system) is for the pre-annotations to be visible a bounding boxes on the .pdf. With the current behavior, there is no way to use pre-annotations and PAWLS is not very useful, because then all annotations have to be labelled from scratch rather than corrected from a model's output.

Is there something hidden in a configuration that could be causing this behavior?
All the .pdfs involved are assigned to the same user.

[eliotpbrenner]

I got this working by starting over in a new directory but I'm not exactly sure what I changed...