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Sprachprofi
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 Message 17 of 26
24 January 2012 at 3:06pm | IP Logged 
Insomniac wrote:
Anki is a great idea but it does have bugs in it. You can potentially
lose a lot of hard
work, and doing a quick search it seems a lot of people have been affected by these
glitches, especially if you sync with your mobile device.

I have been using Anki for many years, and I use it with my iphone, and never lost any
data. On the Anki mailing list reports of data loss are rare and almost always linked to
Dropbox. I don't use Dropbox to host my Anki.
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Insomniac
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 Message 18 of 26
24 January 2012 at 3:49pm | IP Logged 
Yes the problems I am having are to do with anki and dropbox combination.

How do you transfer media files to your iphone then if you dont mind me asking?
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zenmonkey
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 Message 19 of 26
24 January 2012 at 3:49pm | IP Logged 
Sprachprofi wrote:
Insomniac wrote:
Anki is a great idea but it does have bugs in it. You can potentially
lose a lot of hard
work, and doing a quick search it seems a lot of people have been affected by these
glitches, especially if you sync with your mobile device.

I have been using Anki for many years, and I use it with my iphone, and never lost any
data. On the Anki mailing list reports of data loss are rare and almost always linked to
Dropbox. I don't use Dropbox to host my Anki.


Been using Anki for a while and the only errors I've seen are due to my forgetting to sync working on another machine and then syncing out of order. I'm running 6 decks with 3000 cards and not really seeing problems after over 2 years.

In order to avoid the infrequent problem, it is quite easy to create a master backup of each deck.

- Open up a deck xxx
- Export
- right click, create a "backup" folder
- Open Folder
- Export xxx.backup as an Anki deck in the that new folder

If you lose your cards you can easily restore them.
I usually back cards up after a major update or once a month or so.

you can avoid dropbox with this guide. See the manual set-up section.

Edited by zenmonkey on 24 January 2012 at 3:54pm
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Sprachprofi
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 Message 20 of 26
24 January 2012 at 4:01pm | IP Logged 
Insomniac wrote:
Yes the problems I am having are to do with anki and dropbox
combination.

How do you transfer media files to your iphone then if you dont mind me asking?

I don't need media files on my iphone. I have two decks that rely on media, geography and
Chinese movie lines (for listening comprehension). The iphone screen is too small to
effectively display those maps, and the subway is too noisy to allow me to discern the
already-scrambled movie speech, so I don't sync those decks at all and work on other
decks instead.
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Insomniac
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 Message 21 of 26
24 January 2012 at 4:06pm | IP Logged 
zenmonkey wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
Insomniac wrote:
Anki is a great idea but it
does have bugs in it. You can potentially
lose a lot of hard
work, and doing a quick search it seems a lot of people have been affected by these
glitches, especially if you sync with your mobile device.

I have been using Anki for many years, and I use it with my iphone, and never lost any
data. On the Anki mailing list reports of data loss are rare and almost always linked
to
Dropbox. I don't use Dropbox to host my Anki.


Been using Anki for a while and the only errors I've seen are due to my forgetting to
sync working on another machine and then syncing out of order. I'm running 6 decks with
3000 cards and not really seeing problems after over 2 years.

In order to avoid the infrequent problem, it is quite easy to create a master backup of
each deck.

- Open up a deck xxx
- Export
- right click, create a "backup" folder
- Open Folder
- Export xxx.backup as an Anki deck in the that new folder

If you lose your cards you can easily restore them.
I usually back cards up after a major update or once a month or so.

you can avoid dropbox with this
guide. See the manual set-up
section.


Yes I've tried all the steps in the link provided but still get the same problem.
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zenmonkey
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 Message 22 of 26
24 January 2012 at 4:15pm | IP Logged 
Insomniac wrote:
zenmonkey wrote:
   
you can avoid dropbox with this
guide. See the manual set-up
section.


Yes I've tried all the steps in the link provided but still get the same problem.


All I can suggest is the troubleshooting guide in the same section and contacting them directly.
I use very little media with Anki, that limits the issues, so my case might not be the most useful to you.


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Insomniac
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 Message 23 of 26
24 January 2012 at 4:38pm | IP Logged 
I am actually on their mailing list hence why I noticed others having problems with media
and dropbox.


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lwtproject
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 Message 24 of 26
24 January 2012 at 8:34pm | IP Logged 
Insomniac wrote:
... I noticed others having problems with media
and dropbox.


I agree, Anki Desktop and Anki Mobile synchronization and the media sync with Dropbox don't seem to work
properly. Once I returned from a 3 week trip and the synchronization with Anki Desktop failed. All my statuses from
the iPhone were lost.

I am now using Flashcards Deluxe, the app costs only 3 €, is feature-rich and very stable. The SRS, in my opinion, is
better than in Anki.

Edited by lwtproject on 24 January 2012 at 8:35pm


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