Haven’t used Anki in a long time. Opened it today, and everything is gone. backups, media, decks, *.apkg, everything. Been searching system backups for two hours (have a lot of them) but haven’t yet found one. Nothing on AnkiWeb either!
I can rebuild one deck from a spreadsheet, but all the rest are lost.
??? how?
My only guess is that Apple’s Migration Assistant decided not to import that directory when I got a new laptop. But that seems pretty unlikely.
I clicked reply, but …
Data from inactive accounts may be deleted after some months:
https://faqs.ankiweb.net/ankiweb-account-removal.html
If you have made local backups you may recover your data. Otherwise, it’s going to be difficult to recover your cards, unfortunately.
Have you checked this?
I repeat, I know the locations, and I have months of backups. However, I could not find them in the backups either. Seems they were not transferred when I got a new laptop.
But, most of them were on the iPad, and I figured out how to get them back. It’s messy method, and I don’t recommend it. But for tech-savvy people, I’ll write it up when I have more time.