"Check Media" improperly reports new imports as both missing and unused

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When I import notes with media into Anki everything seems to work fine. The cards appear as they should and the media displays properly.
However, when I use the “Check Media” tool, each newly imported media is reported as both Missing AND Unused. For example:

Missing: H-Louis%2014%20(02).jpg
Unused: H-Louis 14 (02).jpg

After investigating, I found I can make this message disappears by just looking at the HTML of the image field.

Here is a summary of how the behavior occurs :

  • I import new notes. In the browser, everything seems fine.
  • “Check Media” reports wrong and incoherent status for the new images.
  • I browse to the newly imported note
  • I select the image field, click alt-shift-X to display the HTML, click alt-shift-X again to close the HTML display
  • “Check Media” is normalised. No more mention of the newly imported media.

The csv files from which I import seem to be properly encoded in UTF-8 wth Unix line feeds. They use tab as separators instead of commas. In any case, I emphasise once again that the problem occurs only when running check media, NOT at the import stage.

Any idea of what causes this annoyance and how to get rid of it would be most welcome. Thanks in advance. W.

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It is most likely due to the formatting of the name used in the src for the img
As you can see, %20 corresponds to whitespace and the name of the file is with a literal whitespace instead of %20. I suspect that when you’re doing viewing the HTML, it converts the %20 to a whitespace character which then will reference it correctly. I’d say perhaps the issue is when importing the cards, your field has a different name from what the actual name of the file is.

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I think SuhasK is right.

The issue is probably that your .csv is referencing the img tags incorrectly. It should be something along the lines of

<img src="Picture A.png">

not

<img src=Picture A.png>

The " are important.

You can solve this by running check database.

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Thank you ShukasK and Anon_0000.
Your intuitions were correct.

My error was to import with the quotes but also substituting spaces for %20 :
<img src="Picture%20A.jpg">

Now, this works flawlessly :
<img src="Picture A.jpg">

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