Completed Cards, Full Sync Lost Two Days of Data

On both of the past two days I have started my anki reviews on my laptop and finished my cards on the ios app. Today when I opened my laptop anki I was prompted to conduct a full sync and it appears that I have lost all of the progress on the cards I have completed in the past two days and lost my review streak (544 days).

The ios app currently is still displaying the correct card count that I should have for today and is showing a red sync button. I have seen in the past an option come up stating that two conflicting sync files exist and asking whether I would like to upload or download from ankiweb. If that’s an option then perfect, I can just upload to ankiweb on ios then download from ankiweb on laptop, but I haven’t pressed the red sync button on the ios app yet due to worry about it just auto-syncing to the data file currently shown on my laptop.

Ideally, I would like to rectify the review count on my laptop anki, preferably not lose the reviews I have done in the past two days, and hopefully fix my streak (I know it is dumb but 544 days is a long time).

Whenever I do cards on my phone I always sync multiple times because I worry about something getting lost, so I know that is not the issue. I actually opened the app before going to bed last night to make sure I did it.

Please help, literally took Step 1 yesterday and just wants to get my cards done :frowning:

Yes, that’s what you’ll get when you press the red sync button, and that’s what you should do if the AnkiMobile version of your collection is the most updated one, and the one you want to keep.

Syncing multiple times isn’t necessary. To keep your devices in sync, you should sync when you open the app on a device, and when you close/leave the app on that device, every time. If you have changes on multiple devices at the same time (including changes made in the background by add-ons on desktop …), you run the risk of a sync conflict.

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