# Please update to the latest Anki version

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/please-update-to-the-latest-anki-version/60478>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [May 7, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/please-update-to-the-latest-anki-version/60478 "2025-05-07T15:07:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![jramos07](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jramos07](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jramos07)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/please-update-to-the-latest-anki-version/60478/1 "2025-05-07T15:07:03Z")

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So I’m trying to read an .akpg in python. This is my code

```auto
import sqlite3
import os
import tempfile
import zipfile

def read_collection_anki2(apkg_path):
    """
    Reads data directly from the collection.anki2 file within an .apkg.

    Args:
        apkg_path (str): The path to the .apkg file.
    """
    try:
        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
            with zipfile.ZipFile(apkg_path, 'r') as apk_file:
                apk_file.extract('collection.anki2', tmpdir)
                db_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'collection.anki2')

            conn = sqlite3.connect(db_path)
            cursor = conn.cursor()

            # Now you can execute SQL queries on the 'cursor' object
            # to read data from the tables in the database.

            # Example: Get a list of all tables
            cursor.execute("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table';")
            tables = [row[0] for row in cursor.fetchall()]
            print("Tables in the database:", tables)

            # Example: Get the number of notes
            cursor.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM notes")
            note_count = cursor.fetchone()[0]
            print(f"Number of notes: {note_count}")

            # Example: Fetch the first 10 notes (id, guid, mid, flds)
            cursor.execute("SELECT id, guid, mid, flds FROM notes LIMIT 10")
            first_notes = cursor.fetchall()
            for note in first_notes:
                print(f"Note ID: {note[0]}, GUID: {note[1]}, Model ID: {note[2]}, Fields: {note[3]}")

            # Remember to close the connection
            conn.close()

    except zipfile.BadZipFile:
        print(f"Error: Invalid .apkg file: {apkg_path}")
    except sqlite3.Error as e:
        print(f"Error accessing the Anki database: {e}")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"An unexpected error occurred: {e}")

if __name__ == " __main__":
    apkg_file_path = 'anki_spanish_deck.apkg' # Replace with the actual path
    read_collection_anki2(apkg_file_path)

```

and the akpg im reading gives me this output:

```auto
$ python read_anki_file.py 
Tables in the database: ['col', 'notes', 'cards', 'revlog', 'sqlite_stat1', 'sqlite_stat4', 'graves']
Number of notes: 1
Note ID: 1746629856928, GUID: D4/[1ERfG~, Model ID: 1746629856923, Fields: Please update to the latest Anki version, then import the .colpkg/.apkg file again.

```

I updated my anki version so I dont know why there’s still an issue.

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**Author:** ![jramos07](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jramos07](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jramos07)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/please-update-to-the-latest-anki-version/60478/2 "2025-05-08T11:21:08Z")

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Hi everyone, I figured it out! It turns out a lot of the code references online use collection.anki2, but apparently now it’s collection.anki21 for the newer version. I feel like this may be a typo. But everything works now! I feel like collection.anki2 needs to have a deprecation message.

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**Author:** ![jramos07](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jramos07](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jramos07)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/please-update-to-the-latest-anki-version/60478/3 "2025-05-08T11:23:24Z")

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Also more of an update, I dug into the code repo and found the [reference](https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/1124a637984b5700e7b555ed152361775acd4fc7/pylib/anki/importing/apkg.py#L24C9-L24C24). Turns out collection.anki21 is an experimental v2. But doesn’t seem experimental since it’s not in beta. Can we please remove .anki2 if it’s no longer needed.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/please-update-to-the-latest-anki-version/60478/4 "2025-06-07T11:23:29Z")

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