All my decks are gone!

[WGroleau]

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.

Yes, I know the location

Continuing the discussion from All my decks are gone!: I have enough backups that it takes longer than two hours to search through them. And I am familiar with the the now empty locations because I have added tons of MP3s and images. Three of the decks are still on an iPad but it says password is wrong when I try to sync. Is there a way to transfer a backup from iPad to laptop. I clicked “reply” so I don’t get how it started a separate thread.

I clicked reply, but …

[cqg]

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?

https://docs.ankiweb.net/files.html?#file-locations

[WGroleau]

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.