Hi everyone, I’ve been using Anki for years, and I have a collection file that is over 400MB in size. I had no problems syncing before, even though I knew the file size had exceeded AnkiWeb’s limit. However, after upgrading to Anki 25.05.4, I started receiving this message every time I launch Anki. After downloading this version, I can no longer sync. What should I do now?I don’t want to delete my older cards which I’ve grinded over for years, is setting up a self hosted sync server the only option left for me?
In the Anki maual it states:
As the usage of Anki and AnkiWeb increases, at some point a pricing system may be introduced where basic, low-capacity accounts are free and heavier users can pay more for more space.
I’m just wondering when this will happen, as I would be willing to pay.
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Possible, “Note Size” addon can help to identify big notes and reduce collection size
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Hi Aleks,
Thanks for this amazing add-on! I actually installed it yesterday and noticed I have loads of cards over 70KB in size (which I know is pretty big for simple text cards). I realize the main reason is that I use this add-on to generate definitions from local dictionaries, and they end up including a lot of CSS styling like this. But that add-on is essential for me, so I can’t really uninstall it.
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You could talk to the add-on author about not including so much junk HTML (or so much formatting at all) in each note. It’s much more efficient to use multiple fields in your note and keep the Styling in your note type and templates.
But your other option is to do a lot of find-replacing to strip out the unnecessary parts of HTML.
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Hi Dnika,thanks for the suggestion!
I’ll reach out to the add-on author right away to see if they can help reduce the extra formatting.
I’m not very familiar with HTML, so if I want to clean up the unnecessary parts myself, could you please give me some advice or simple steps on how to do it?
I doubt that I can be of much help there. It’s going to depend on what formatting you actually want to keep, what are things that the add-on really adds to your collection (like the css, png, aac files that are referenced in your screenshot), what’s necessary because of the language the text is in, what’s in the styling for the note type, etc.
You should be able to find all of those HTML tags pretty easily on a site like https://www.w3schools.com/, and get common-sense explanations of what they do. That should help you figure out what you might want to preserve.
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Thank you so much for such a detailed answer 
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