I just downloaded Anki for my Windows 64-bit computer (23.10 Qt5). It crashes immediately any time I click to open it. The only way this is resolved is by holding the shift key. I don’t have any add-ons, and I haven’t tried to sync anything to the app yet.
Yes- I had the same issue when I attempted to download the Qt-6 version for Windows. I uninstalled and reinstalled both Qt5 and Qt6 with the same issue being presented, and the same shift-key “solution” taking place
This is going to sound weird, but after checking on the app again (~24 hours after this issue) it seems to have resolved! I did attempted the check database solution yesterday, and it hadn’t fixed anything. I was about to check on your graphics driver solution. My guess is that my computer updated within this timeframe?
I also tried to sync through AnkiWeb and adding it to my Anki app after the disable shift issue. It didn’t add or subtract any cards as far as I can tell, but apparently the sync did something! I’m not sure if I turned off automatic syncing- how do I check?
A friend just reported he was able to fix the issue by fixing the system clock… Anki should report a wrong clock in an error message so not sure why this is not the case here.