Issue: AnkiHub re-downloading unused media after removal

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Hi Team,

For context, my issue is similar to the one discussed in this Anki forum post and this AnkiHub post. Neither seemed to nail down the problem or solution.

I have isolated the problem source specifically to AnkiHub syncing, not AnkiWeb.

I have ~14,900 unused media files (~2 GB) associated with my decks. With automatic AnkiHub syncing turned off, I can delete the unused files, remove them from the trash, and after all my devices sync with AnkiWeb, I can confirm the files are gone.

However, when I attempt to manually sync with AnkiHub, these same unused files immediately begin to download. So, if I want to stay up-to-date with the latest deck updates, I’m forced to keep this large cache of unused media.

Additional context: Using the overhaul deck, I have nearly all fields protected other than text, extra, sketchy, IO.

I don’t understand why this is occurring, and would prefer to free up the storage space considering these media files are no longer relevant to my cards. Any thoughts or help you can offer would be appreciated!

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Hello,

The developers have been notified of this issue and we will be implementing a fix for this in the future!

You are correct in that this is caused by AnkiHub, due to how the add-on handles media syncing, but this is not ideal and we want to make sure this doesn’t happen in the future

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Can you please notify us once it is fixed?

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Has this issue been resolved yet? It is taking too much space on all of my devices.

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Hello :slight_smile:

Sorry to say it has not been resolved just yet. The devs are aware of it, though, and it’s an issue in active consideration.

I can’t offer a timeline at current, but it has been communicated up the chain and the proper parties are cognizant of it being a request.

If you have any other questions, or if there’s anything else we can help with, please let me know and I’d be happy to do what I can.

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has this issue been resolved ? i tried deleting sketchy media and protected those fields but they keep on getting downloaded. protecting fields only does the work of not showing those media in the respective fields but they still get downloaded and show up on missing media! I have no use of sketchy media so i tried to delete them by batch edit addon and then replacing the sketchy field with nothing and then going foreword i protected the sketchy field but again on syncing those media files start getting downloaded ! As of now I have unsubscribed from the Anking step deck so that with each sync they don’t start getting downloaded .I hope this issue gets resolved asap! I think it is something with the protect field action - it only keeps the media files from showing in the respective fields …it does not altogether keep them from downloading!

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Unfortunately as yet a fix has not been developed.

It’s on the drawing board for the developers, though, and we’ll likely make an announcement at which time there’s an update to be communicated. :slight_smile:

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