Anki cards are suddenly missing media (also in ankiweb

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I’m not aware of any way to do that.

I think it would be worth it for you to figure out what caused this issue. That will help you avoid it in the future, and might help you figure out if there’s an easier way back. Like – was it a Find & Replace that ran amok? I notice in that filename, everything that changed was a 1, changing to another digit, and they all are immediately after a c – were you cleaning up some cloze markers, perhaps? Is that what all 70 files look like?

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That it it was find and replace didn’t know it would work on images

You’ve got some serious pattern recognition skills i didn’t even think of that

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Now all thats left is the media sync error it happens on all devices and because of it i can’t delete any media files stored on ankiweb

I saw on another post that someone deleted their account then made a new one i think this will fix it but will i be able to use the same email address as the the deleted one?

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thankfully I find an older backup so I overrated my current deck with it and that fixed the missing media issue al of my cards work now except 5 which I recovered manually

as I said in the post before there is one last problem which is the media sync error I get that on every device and I’m not sure how to fix it or what caused it in the first place it started after you restored my deleted files on ankiweb so manbe that could be a hint but from what I saw in the web nobody had this problem from restoring ankiweb

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so I “fixed” the media sync error by backing up my entire collection with media files after that deleted my ankiweb account then I made a new account with then same email and opened my back now everything works perfectly

I have one more question though. When using find and replace can I protect certain fields?

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Better to limit your Find & Replace to just the field you need to make changes in. And you may need to consider using a more sophisticated search to do this in the future. Browsing - Anki Manual

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