A quick (and I guess a bit nooby) question about anki:
I want to use Anki at 2 computers, not at the same time. In which part/file(s) does Anki save my 'progress data', i.e. which cards are due etc? And I guess that if I switch computers, I can just copy, paste and overwrite this file in the Anki folder of the 'other' PC?

Anki saves all it's data in the decks' .anki file. So you can just copy that file across if you like.

A better solutions would be to use anki's online sync option so that you can access your deck on any computer. You could also put your deck in a http://getdropbox.com and use that to keep your deck's synced. Or you could use both.

Thank you for the help. I tried to use the website and it seems handy.
I hoped that if you sync your PC deck with the online deck, the sync would always use the deck with the newest date. This however does not seem the case, it seems to me that the PC deck is always copied to the online deck, meaning that if I switch PC's and turn on my 'old Anki' version, it will sync and copy my old data on the online deck, which is of course undesirable.
Am I wrong? If not, what would be the best solution?

kame3 Wrote:Thank you for the help. I tried to use the website and it seems handy.
I hoped that if you sync your PC deck with the online deck, the sync would always use the deck with the newest date. This however does not seem the case, it seems to me that the PC deck is always copied to the online deck, meaning that if I switch PC's and turn on my 'old Anki' version, it will sync and copy my old data on the online deck, which is of course undesirable.
Am I wrong? If not, what would be the best solution?

Nope, the new online data will sync to your computer.

I set up anki+dropbox, as you (bombpersons) outlined in the RTK-Wiki. However I ran into a problem:
Synching would crash the deck (Something about being read-only). I fixed that by using the custom-media dir plugin, so that the deck is outside of the dropbox, while the media is inside.
I would prefere to have the .anki -file also in the dropbox. Do you know how to change the permissions/whatever else one has to do to get it to work?

HerrPetersen Wrote:I set up anki+dropbox, as you (bombpersons) outlined in the RTK-Wiki. However I ran into a problem:
Synching would crash the deck (Something about being read-only). I fixed that by using the custom-media dir plugin, so that the deck is outside of the dropbox, while the media is inside.
I would prefere to have the .anki -file also in the dropbox. Do you know how to change the permissions/whatever else one has to do to get it to work?

I only have this problem when I use windows... It works fine in Ubuntu.

Ok, so I guess it does not have a trivial solution in Windows. Maybe you can extend the wiki-entry, so the Windows users won't run into the error? (I do not have any experience editing wikis)

Also if you're using dropbox be careful never to have two instances running at once. Data corruption has been reported before. Online syncing is always the best option for the .anki file.

HerrPetersen Wrote:I set up anki+dropbox, as you (bombpersons) outlined in the RTK-Wiki. However I ran into a problem:
Synching would crash the deck (Something about being read-only). I fixed that by using the custom-media dir plugin, so that the deck is outside of the dropbox, while the media is inside.
I would prefere to have the .anki -file also in the dropbox. Do you know how to change the permissions/whatever else one has to do to get it to work?

I backup my Anki decks using Dropbox and I haven't got any problem, and I sometimes even open 2 instances at the same time...

I don't know if this will help you, but you can Sync Files and Folders Outside Your My Dropbox Folder.

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In Japanese: 『Dropbox』フォルダ内にないファイルやフォルダを同期