# Anki 2.1.49 crashes when importing decks

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-49-crashes-when-importing-decks/15903>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 14, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-49-crashes-when-importing-decks/15903 "2021-12-14T14:50:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alaeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@Alaeus](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Alaeus)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-49-crashes-when-importing-decks/15903/1 "2021-12-14T14:50:51Z")

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Running Anki 2.1.49 in Windows 11. When importing decks by double-clicking their .apkg files, the deck imports successfully but then Anki freezes at some “checking decks” loading screen. It just never stops checking the decks.

Upon killing the process and restarting Anki, the decks are fully imported.

Is this a known bug?

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**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-49-crashes-when-importing-decks/15903/2 "2021-12-15T10:23:23Z")

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Please let me know if it still happens in the current beta version: [https://betas.ankiweb.net/](https://betas.ankiweb.net/)

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**Author:** ![Alaeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@Alaeus](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Alaeus)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-49-crashes-when-importing-decks/15903/3 "2021-12-16T07:45:31Z")

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It does not happen with Anki installed from the [anki-2.1.50+beta2\_db804d95-windows-qt6.exe](https://apps.ankiweb.net/downloads/beta/anki-2.1.50%2Bbeta2_db804d95-windows-qt6.exe) installer, as far as I can see.

Somehow my sync got messed up while running the beta and I was forced to upload everything from local, but it could be a version mismatch problem perhaps. Beta seems to be running just fine otherwise.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 4:39am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-49-crashes-when-importing-decks/15903/4 "2023-05-01T04:39:42Z")

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