Can't open anki in windows. Anki is searching for python38.dll in the wrong place

On your machine:

[5816] LOADER: _MEIPASS2 is C:\Users\olive\AppData\Local\Temp\mei

On my machine:

[10024] LOADER: _MEIPASS2 is NULL

It looks like it’s an environment variable. Maybe another app created this variable in the past.

Try to run anki-console again from cmd.exe but with these two lines:

set _MEIPASS2=
cd \program files\anki & anki-console

If it works and Anki can be opened, press Win and search for “environ” (“Edit the system environment variables”) - Environment Variables, look for “_MEIPASS2” in User or System variables and delete it. If nothing is found, maybe restart Windows.

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