Anki backup is WAY larger than what is actually present

Anki Help
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Hey everyone,

So I am using Anki on my Mac and my iPad which are synced, and I have a backup for Anki which is approximately 6.5GB. Now, I have only 1 user for Anki and everytime I export the whole user it gets to 100MB max, so where is this 6.4GB hiding?

CleanShot 2024-02-26 at 23.55.04@2x
CleanShot 2024-02-26 at 23.55.04@2x1114Ă—616 27 KB

I found the media files that are taking the space, but I deleted those decks a long time ago and for some reason the backup is still sitting on my Mac, is there any way to delete those?

Thank you!

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Does this interface let you access Anki2 directly?

Anki2 > Backups

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image1264Ă—436 38.5 KB

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Backup folder isn’t that big :frowning:

CleanShot 2024-02-27 at 00.12.41@2x
CleanShot 2024-02-27 at 00.12.41@2x2896Ă—362 120 KB

All of the big files are on the collection.media folder, which is weird because I don’t have many of the files in my current decks…
I can’t just delete the folder because my current decks media will also be deleted…

Any clue what to do?

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Pardon, thought it was the other way around

Try Tools > Check Media > Deleted unused > Empty Trash