hi i just want short answer so not to waste others time. i am betting onto image occlusion, and i found several ebook will already make the media collection to be about 1GB: [image] quote of ankiweb FAQ at bottom, with refernce to it… the IO are .png and thus will never exist the limit of a sin…

If you anticipate your collection growing much above 10GB, please keep the collection on one device or use your own sync server instead of consuming AnkiWeb’s resources. https://docs.ankiweb.net/sync-server.html

It should be fine, technically, but it will by a nightmare to synchronize (especially on Android), and there’s a high chance you will never see that many cards anyway, it doesn’t seem manageable. And I don’t really see how you can easily get 400gb of useful media. Try to keep your collection as sma…

thanks for reply, but the fastest way to make IOs for me is to use add on “pdf to anki” using basic note type; then when i want make an IO, i simply browse to that folder, click on IO’s button and make it. otherwise if I import page by page, it’s more click away. thanks

If more than a very few people take this approach, I foresee AnkiWeb will become a paid service. 400GB is a very large amount of storage for a free service. Please don’t ruin it for us all.

[image] krstoevan: then when i want make an IO, i simply browse to that folder, click on IO’s button and make it. I’m not sure I understand. You want to convert entire books into cards, one page per card? And then not use the majority of the cards, but sync them anyway? What will you do with …

sure, will start to try do so. but technically will that be ok? thx btw, i am on 2.1.54, last time i saw if beyond 2.1.54 the self-server dont work. let me check out thx. changed… Anki 2.1.57+ includes a built-in sync server. Advanced users who cannot or do not wish to use AnkiWeb can use this …

hi, i tried to delete those less necessary card/notes at the moment, the “storage” on the Rt side is greatly reduced, but the Lt didn’t. as far as i understand, the Lt side are those “text” contents? the less necessary card/notes deleted contain images and text (the whole page’s text) by the “p…

looks like explanations are here: [image] I have 10 cards in collection, but the collection size is 300MB Anki Desktop I created multiple profiles just like you… I wish there were an option to remove info regarding past reviews on to keep only three last instead of 20 year…

ps, may be it takes some time for the collection to shrink? now is ok [image]

[image] krstoevan: but technically will that be ok? thx Operations like Check Media will get progressively slower as the media folder grows, but it shouldn’t have much of an effect on daily operations like reviewing.

looks like it is do-able. on win10 my anki have to be install version as some addon requires it. I experienced with portable anki before. yet from the manual and others, the -b option could still be used by install version of anki (although officially discouraged). As i got a 512GB USB SSD, i co…

Will a media collection of ~400GB hurt on win10 PC?

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krstoevan December 11, 2023, 8:41am 9

looks like explanations are here:

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Will a media collection of ~400GB hurt on win10 PC?

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