# Issues with Media Sync on Custom Anki Server **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [January 15, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/issues-with-media-sync-on-custom-anki-server/54420 "2025-01-15T15:53:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CrayonLearn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@CrayonLearn](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/CrayonLearn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/issues-with-media-sync-on-custom-anki-server/54420/1 "2025-01-15T15:53:56Z")
Hello everyone, I set up a custom Anki server following the guide in the Anki manual, and I would like to ask for help with a media sync issue I’m having. The server seems to be functioning “well”, as I was able to log in through my AnkiDroid device without any problems. I copied the profile from `~/.local/share/Anki2/user` to `~/.syncserver`, and everything appeared to be in order. 👍🏻 After syncing, AnkiDroid displayed a message saying “Full sync from server”, but this process completed very quickly. Since I have thousands of media files in collection.media that are also in `~/.syncserver`, I suspected that the sync wasn’t complete. When I tapped sync again, it felt like the process was more focused on uploading changes instead of downloading those media files. I tried doing a forced one-way sync, and even though it showed “Downloading” and then “Checking downloaded file,” it ended up saying “Media synced,” which was probably incorrect. In the settings of AnkiDroid, I have the following configurations: Fetch media on sync: Always Allow sync on metered connection: Enabled On the server side, I also tried setting `MAX_SYNC_PAYLOAD_MEGS=1000` Server is run by the command: `SYNC_USER1=user:pass anki --syncserver` Despite these settings, the media files are still not syncing. _(All decks are synced)_ I would really appreciate any guidance on what else I might check or adjust to help resolve this issue. Thank you so much for your support! ---
**Author:** ![CrayonLearn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@CrayonLearn](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/CrayonLearn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/issues-with-media-sync-on-custom-anki-server/54420/2 "2025-01-15T22:30:44Z")
I deleted all cache and data from AnkiDroid and set up syncing again. Althought, I am still facing the issue, at least, I received an error message this time: `com.ichi2.anki.exception.UnknownHttpResponseException: Conflict` ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/issues-with-media-sync-on-custom-anki-server/54420/3 "2025-01-18T06:44:12Z")
> [@CrayonLearn](#): > > I copied the profile from `~/.local/share/Anki2/user` to `~/.syncserver`, It was not designed to support that. You should sync data to it. ---
**Author:** ![CrayonLearn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@CrayonLearn](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/CrayonLearn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/issues-with-media-sync-on-custom-anki-server/54420/4 "2025-01-19T00:57:30Z")
Thank you very much! I didn’t realize that I could and should set up syncing from the same system. Media is syncing now! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/issues-with-media-sync-on-custom-anki-server/54420/5 "2025-02-18T00:57:40Z")
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