Uworld Images not appearing on Anking Deck

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Hi I just did a sync and all the uworld tables that were on my Anking cards were deleted. I also noticed some images that belonged to Anking were also deleted. How can I fix this?

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It sounds like two things may have happened at once: media (images/tables) may have been removed locally, and/or some UWorld content might have been affected by how it was added in the first place.

A few quick checks and fixes you can try:

1. Confirm it’s only media (not full cards) that’s missing

Open a few affected cards and check:

  • Is the text still there, but the table/image area is blank or shows a broken image icon?
    → This points to a media issue.
  • Or are full fields/cards missing?
    → This might be a note/field sync or template issue.

Mention which of these it is in your reply if you can.

2. Check Anki’s media database

  1. In Anki desktop, go to:
    Tools → Check Media
  2. Let Anki scan; it will show:
    • Missing files
    • Unused files

If you see a lot of missing media listed, that confirms the files are not currently in your collection. Take a screenshot of the “Check Media” results and upload it here if possible.

3. Make sure you’re fully synced with AnkiWeb

Sometimes the media is still on another device or on AnkiWeb:

  1. On the device where the images/tables were originally present, open Anki.
  2. Click Sync and let it fully finish (including media).
  3. Then on your current device, Sync again and wait for media to finish.

Let us know if any UWorld tables/images reappear after this.

4. How did you add the UWorld tables originally?

This part really matters for what’s recoverable:

  • Did you:
    • Use the AnKing UWorld add-on or a specific workflow/tutorial?
    • Copy-paste tables and images manually from UWorld into Anki?
    • Use a third‑party importer or another add-on?

If the content was manually pasted (especially images hosted online), it’s possible some of those files weren’t truly stored as Anki media, or they were later deleted/overwritten.

Please describe briefly how you added the UWorld material before it disappeared.

5. Check for backups (most important for recovery)

Anki keeps automatic backups:

  1. In Anki desktop, go to File → Switch Profile → [your profile] → Downgrade & Export (or Open backup) or
    File → Import and point to your backups folder.
  2. Look at backups from before your recent sync (yesterday or earlier).
  3. Temporarily open/restore one of those backups and check if the UWorld images/tables are present there.

If they are present in a backup, you likely can restore from that backup (and then re‑set up AnkiHub if needed). Before doing this, tell us what you find so we can help you choose the safest restore approach without losing your AnkiHub changes.

6. AnkiHub‑specific checks

Even though UWorld content itself is not part of the official AnKing-AnkiHub deck, sometimes users put UWorld content into:

  • Custom fields or
  • Personal edits synced via AnkiHub.

Please let us know:

  • Which AnKing variation/version you’re using (e.g. AnKing Overhaul V12, Step 2 V10, etc.)
  • Whether you’ve:
    • Made lots of personal edits to those cards, and
    • Enabled “Upload my edits” on AnkiHub at any point.

With that info we can guide you on whether anything might be restorable via AnkiHub or if it’s purely local/backup-dependent.

To help you best, please reply with:

  1. Whether the card text is intact and only media is missing.
  2. Screenshot (or description) of the output of Tools → Check Media.
  3. How you originally added the UWorld tables/images.
  4. Whether you can see those tables/images in any recent backup.

Once you share that, we can walk you through the safest next step to try to restore them.

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  1. The card text is intact its only the media missing

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It only says 7 are missing but all the uworld is missing so it has to be more than 7
3. I didnt add any of the Uworld images they were already on the cards
4. Im not seeing them in my most recent backups which is weird because today I saw them when doing my cards

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Hello,

The most likely scenario is that you had a different version of the AnKing Step deck downloaded. If you didn’t add these tables yourself, they were probably included by the source from whom you originally downloaded the deck. The official AnKing Step deck doesn’t have any specific UWorld tables in the cards.

Regarding the deleted images, they were probably not official AnKing images, or they were from an older version. This happened because your fields were not protected, or the images were located in fields that shouldn’t be protected.

The only way to get this content back is to restore from a backup using this tutorial: How to Restore from Backup

This will revert your Anki collection to a snapshot taken before the sync happened.

Could you provide a bit more context about the situation? For example, where did you get the AnKing deck that contained these tables, and was this your first sync with the AnkiHub version? Screenshots of your Anki main screen showing your decks would also be helpful, though I suspect the scenario described above is the cause.