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Anki (iPod) error – missing file

tuxm — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:46:00 +0000

First of all, thank you for creating such a vibrant and pro-active learning tool. I’ve been using it for some time and it works like a charm.

Recently I’ve bought the Anki app for iPod Touch (a little pricy but worth every penny), and it really helps with studying on a daily basis. However, the app is little forgiving on the part of missing files. For the Kanji vocab deck, the 54-hantaisuru.mp3 file is missing. If the app is missing one file, it will refuse to download any files that follow, hence I’m missing half the pronounciations for this deck. For now I’ve added an empty mp3 file so I can at least hear the rest, but it would be nice if an actual pronounciation would be made available in future.

Kind regards,
Rick

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koichi — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:12:05 +0000

Here’s a link for the file:

http://www.textfugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/54-hantaishimasu.mp3

I’ll go add it into the kanji vocab deck now too – thanks!

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koichi — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:13:34 +0000

actually… now that I look… 反対する shouldn’t be in an anki deck yet, and I can’t find it in the ALL deck either. Maybe delete that one from your deck (or, of course, you can just pop the audio in, too!).

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bassic_person — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:02:29 +0000

I’m having this issue too, but for whatever reason, I can’t get it to work. I can’t find 反対する in the deck, and when I added the audio file to the media deck, it still gave the original error.

Edit: Figured out why that didn’t work, It was asking for “54-hantaisuru”, and the file was named “54-hantai shimasu“.

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カロッタ — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:32:44 +0000

I have also bought Anki for iPad, but I have problems with the media files. Sometimes Anki is unable to find a file (in dropbox). However the message displayed talks about a file that does not exist (sometimes with %, that is encoded name). I don’t mind if there are a couple of flahcards without sound. What can I do? Any ideas? Should I create a file with the Anki suggested name? Are you also doing it via Dropbox? I tried importing the decks via iTunes, but it is not working either.

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ジャン — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:12:22 +0000

I’m using Anki for iPad with Dropbox too, and had similar problems. I asked on their forum and was simply referred to the docs, which to me are a little confusing and not really well organized.

I know it’s a pain, but go here and read carefully. Particularly in the Limitations section, you’ll see that Anki doesn’t deal with spaces in file names, hence the % you see. So you’ll have to rename those media files and remove the spaces or other characters that may not be allowed.

Then look in the Problems section and follow carefully the steps needed to add new media. Hopefully that will take care of your problem!

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カロッタ — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:21:14 +0000

Hi John, thanks for your answer. I have already gone throygh the obscure explanations, unsuccesfully. Could you maybe confirm the sequence of all this? As far as i have seen, i need anki desktop to create new decks, then i upload them in the ankiweb by syncing and then i add them to ipad from ankiweb. Is that right? Everything goes fine in desktop and ankiweb, so dropbox is also working. However, when importing to ipad, i get errors with percentatge file names, but in fact those names HAVE NO SPACES AT ALL, so i can t change the name of a files that does not exist. Any ideas?

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ジャン — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:20:25 +0000

Try checking your folders for spaces too. I think one of the initial zip downloads for Kanji vocab, radicals, or sentences has a space in the media file folder name if I remember right.

Then after you correct that, go through the sync process again in Anki on your desktop machine: 1. tools-advanced-check media database 2. tools-advanced-optimize database 3. file-sync

Then sync from your iPad Anki app, and all should work (hopefully!)