V25.09 Windows: anki-console.exe quits without displaying anything

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Upgraded from v25.02.5. New version of anki.exe and anki-console.exe now only launch a terminal window containing no text that quits after 2 seconds. Uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times, installing into different directories each time, and problem is unchanged.

Also the directory “AnkiProgramFiles” is completely empty.

See attached footage at this link: http//files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/928/026/031/339/944/original/bdb0705bd5fa04a3.mp4

System: Windows 10 latest

Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Anki\Install_Dir64 is equal to the actual install location of anki-console.exe

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If you go to Anki’s installation folder, open a terminal there (using cmd.exe or Powershell), and run .\anki-console.exe, do you see any errors?

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No errors, same empty window appears. See footage here: https//files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/933/080/325/900/849/original/d5de1fb51d827f26.mp4

Hey, this program doesn’t have a “verbose mode” from the command line or anything, right?

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For those unable to watch the video, I saw:

  1. In a terminal, the current directory was C:\Users\Leon\AppData\Local\Programs\Anki as shown by the command line prompt:
C:\Users\Leon\AppData\Local\Programs\Anki>
  1. The user ran the .\anki-console.exe command. The command immediately completed and the next command line prompt was seen:
C:\Users\Leon\AppData\Local\Programs\Anki>.\anki-console.exe
C:\Users\Leon\AppData\Local\Programs\Anki>
  1. Immediately after that, the terminal window opened a new tab named C:\Users\Leon\AppData\Local\Programs\Anki>.\anki-console.exe (perhaps showing that something was running or trying to run?).
  2. However, the new tab then immediately closed, with no messages seen.
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Is there anything that can be done about this? Or do I have to keep using 25.02.5 until further notice?

Should I open an issue on GitHub? I notice nothing corresponding to this problem already exists as an issue there.

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I just installed Anki the other day and didn’t see any problems on Windows 10.

Created a new user with admin rights
Downloaded Anki and selected it by default by pressing Enter
Everything downloaded fine
Didn’t log in as any user, just a clean program
Created a deck named 1

Maybe you could at least try this file “Human_skeleton_front_ru.svg” on your 25.02.5. For some reason, it only causes problems.

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Can you try this?

  1. Download uv: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.9.26/uv-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip
  2. Extract the zip and open a terminal in the extracted folder (Right click anywhere inside the folder then click Open PowerShell window here)
  3. Run the command: ./uvx --from aqt anki.

Does that make any difference?

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This manages to successfully run 25.09. However, since this doesn’t actually install Anki, it’s not necessarily an ideal solution. That being said, I vaguely know enough about uv that I could handle things from here. I still think the issue with the installable executable is worth exploring, though.

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abdo is exploring it by asking you to do some testing. You even confirmed it works, which might give abdo an idea on how to solve your issue.

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I logged the issue here: anki-console.exe quits without displaying anything · Issue #4519 · ankitects/anki · GitHub

This is the first report we get of this issue as far as I know. If you’re technical enough and can build Anki from source, you might want to try modifying this part of the code and see if anything helps: anki/qt/launcher/src/platform/windows.rs at b8884bac72aa50fa1189fe0a5079a71574bc5043 · ankitects/anki · GitHub

You can find instructions about building the launcher here: UPDATE(docs): Add build dependencies and instructions for building / running the launcher by GithubAnon0000 · Pull Request #4380 · ankitects/anki · GitHub