# Desktop anki blank **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [September 3, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-anki-blank/3015 "2020-09-03T19:56:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![emkbriceno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a183cd/32.png) [@emkbriceno](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/emkbriceno)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-anki-blank/3015/1 "2020-09-03T19:56:11Z")
My desktop version of anki is showing up completely blank. When I try to add my deck back it says I already have it but it’s not showing up. I can see all my decks on ankiweb but not on the desktop version. Is there any way to fix this? ---
**Author:** ![kelciour](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/kelciour/32/14770_2.png) [@kelciour](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/kelciour)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-anki-blank/3015/2 "2020-09-03T20:31:08Z")
Maybe > [@Main area is blank](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/main-area-is-blank/1161): > > that let me open anki, however, none of my decks are there and i cannot create any new decks. this is what my anki screen looks like when i open it: as you can see there is nothing there. If you have a lot of decks/subdecks and could see them in the sidebar in the card browser, > [@Deck list is blank](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/deck-list-is-blank/2241/2): > > The method Anki uses to send the deck list to the web toolkit can’t cope with very large deck lists. This may be fixed in the future when a different approach is taken, but for now I’m afraid the only option is to reduce the number of decks and/or the length of the names until it starts working again. You could either split unused decks off into a separate profile with export+delete+import, or merge the child decks using [https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/113367344](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/113367344) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 5:32am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/desktop-anki-blank/3015/3 "2023-05-01T05:32:57Z")