Yes, that changes pretty much everything. [The account I checked earlier has been recently active, so there wasn’t any indication I should inquire further.]
You can remove that danc* email address from your message if you want. But before I can take any action with this account, you need to add it to your profile here (in this forum) as a secondary/alternate address and verify it, so I know it belongs to you.
Starting over from the beginning –
Yes, there has been quite a bit of media deleted from that account recently. My test-counter only runs to 4 digits, so it’s over 10K files. Yes, that includes some of the filenames in your screenshots of notes and your media check.
I can start restoring the recently deleted files, but this is going to take some time to restore and for you to resync. Please confirm if you want me to restore the media deleted from this danc* AnkiWeb account (after adding that email address here, as I said above). I’ll start with the media deleted in the past 2 days, and let you know when that is done. You need to avoid syncing with AnkiWeb while the restore is happening.
Once your media is restored, there are 2 more things you will need to do –
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Looking at your accounts, I am astounded to see that on top of the 19 GB of media you’re storing on AnkiWeb for the account I looked at earlier, you’re using another 75+ GB of space for media in these other accounts. I urge you consider whether you’re making responsible use of this free, shared resource. So, when this is done (you can’t do it now, or it will mess up the restoration), you need to use the built-in Anki process to “Delete Unused Media” in all 3 of your AnkiWeb accounts.
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It sounds like OneDrive didn’t delete your files, so it’s pretty important that you figure out how to stop your files from being deleted from your computer. They weren’t automatically deleted from inside Anki or as part of the syncing process, so if you’ve got some sort of drive-cleaner utility running on your system, you need to keep it away from files that are important to you.
Other details that still may be useful –
That difference between the first and second pic is what I was talking about when I said, “it’s very hard to say how many of those “Missing” files are actually the ones you’re concerned about.” Files can be “Missing” that you don’t care about. So once this media is restored, your media check might still show missing files. (The number of “cards” doesn’t matter here – because the files are attached in the fields of the “notes.”)
You shouldn’t to do this step anymore because it will just slow things down – but that doesn’t sound quite right. “Log Out” is a button. After you clicked that, if you tried to sync, you would need to log in again right then (not after you “synced, closed Anki”), so your sequence of steps doesn’t look right. Are you mixing up Preferences > Syncing with something else?
