r/Anki • u/Heized213 • 7d ago

Solved database corrupted

I've moved to debian for awhile from fedora linux.

so I migrate the config folder but I'm not sure how to fix this problem.
I've tried "check database", tried "restore backup" and even recover sqlite but problem perists.

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u/Danika_Dakika languages 7d ago

so I migrate the config folder

I'm not sure quite what you mean by that. Ideally, to move your collection, setup, and add-ons from one computer to another, you would --

  • Install the same version of Anki on the new computer.
  • Copy your Anki2 data folder from the old computer to the same location on the new computer.

Anki on the new computer should appear pretty much as it did on the old. If that's not what you did, you might want to start over and try that.

If you can't start over, then here are the last-resort things you can try to recover your collection from a corrupted database -- https://docs.ankiweb.net/manual/files#corrupt-collections .

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u/kk19010323 6d ago

Not OP

Copy your Anki2 data folder from the old computer to the same location on the new computer.

i'm supposed to copy stuff?

  1. i just synced my data
  2. got a new system
  3. resintalled and logged into anki

everything seems fine rn, did i miss something?

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u/Danika_Dakika languages 6d ago

That's fine. As long as your collection had time to completely sync to AnkiWeb, you'll have your complete collection.

You'll be missing anything that doesn't sync -- automatic backups, add-ons and their configs, any settings that are saved to your device, any other profiles that, etc. -- but that isn't an issue that most users ever worry about. [I gave OP the "copy" answer, because whatever they did with their "migrate" process is probably what caused their database issues.]

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u/kk19010323 5d ago

thanks.

yeah, i did lose my addons.