As seen in the following redidt post, a user was unable to click ‘Troubleshooting’ as the error dialog was opening/closing rapidly.
We could (either/or):
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/1hpqw8z/anki_2411_download_issue/
Anki 24.11
This bug preventing Anki to open has been a problem for several years and is caused by addon Anki Zoom. I already fixed it but there is nothing I can do about it because the original author is no longer active.
Thanks for the context! Totally not your fault
It’s expected that add-ons may break after an update. It’s not expected that they make the error dialog unusable
This bug is caused by an error in the loop. The user cannot operate Anki because a lot of dialogs are displayed.
I think a workaround is to make the dialogs non-modal and limit the number of error dialogs. I have developed an add-on for this purpose, limit the number of dialogs to 3 and any more than that will show a tooltip:
But as far as I know such an error is rare, plus there are some other add-ons bugs causing prevent Anki working. So I don’t know if it is worth embedding a workaround in Anki for desktop. (Edit: If non-modal the process will continue to occur so other problems may occur.)
So it seems to me that just removing Zoom’s add-on page by the official Anki would be enough. Or force a configuration change to make it unusable in versions of Anki where users do not support this add-on. (The last version that this add-on works was 2.1.49, and it does not work from 2.1.50.)
This add-on is recommended for use by other add-ons, so perhaps users are downloading it without reading the add-on ratings. Or it happens when a user with old Anki updates Anki. So if the user cannot update and download, this problem will not occur.
I’ve updated that add-on’s version range so it should get automatically disabled.
Zoom for Anki24 - Keep zoom level after reboot (Fixed by Shigeඞ)
Custom Debug Info - for Development (Created by Shigeඞ)