Thanks, Kieron. Alright, I found a handy app called Tinker Tool that reveals all hidden files in the finder. I've replaced the last deck that I used with the backup, but still Anki won't start. Do I need to replace ALL the decks in a similar fashion? I know that this may seem like an obvious thing to do, but I don't really want to muck around more than I need to and mess things up further.

Also, If a corrupt deck is the problem, then how come Anki won't start even if I delete all my decks? Again, not knowing much about computers, I realise that this may seem like a silly question to the more learned amongst you!

cheers,

d

I understand in principle what I have to do. What I'm not certain is how to change the command line that resolve has provided so that it applies to my deck. If the path is /Users/Django/Documents/anki/jvocab.anki, how would I append this to the following command line from resolve:

/Volumes/Anki/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/Anki ~/Documents/tango.fc

Just downloaded Anki a few days ago and have been loving it.  It is a very nicely put together program. 

Before I discovered it, I was using supermemo on my Palm TX, which was ok, but rather limited in what it could display (i.e., large sentences were very awkward on the display, especially at the large font size I'm using so I can see the kanji) and entering text was a pain given the palm's lackluster touchscreen (IMO). Actually I am still using supermemo right now for single words, altho I might transfer that to anki soon since the phone interface works great for me (tho my softbank phone can't seem to run the newer interface, so I have to use the old one). The only thing preventing me from doing this right now is all the data supermemo holds (i.e., my "scores" for each card), but I suppose this isn't extremely important.

Anyways, a question: Is it possible to do kind of a rikaichan thing and hide readings (furigana) unless they are needed? What I mean by that is a specific reading won't be given unless I select that word and click on it. So for example, my question card is "school dorm", and my answer card is "学校の寮". But instead of the furigana automatically appearing with the answer, I would like them hidden unless I click on a kanji, and then only the furigana for that specific kanji would appear (or the reading for the multiple kanji if it is a word...  like rikaichan does), not for all the kanji. So for my example, if I then click on 寮, then "りょう" pops up.

Now that I think of it, I suppose this would be similar to a "3rd" side to the card, and I think I saw an earlier post that said that wasn't supported yet.  Anyways, can someone tell me for sure if this is possible or not?

Anyways, thanks for the great program!
-dave

Resolve-

Thanks for the quick reply!  As to why I would want to...  I don't know, to further challenge myself I guess, while still making it easy to find the answer if I need it.  At this point in my studies, it almost feels like cheating if I use furigana to help me read a word. Plus I do notice that when the furigana is present, my eye is immediately drawn to it and I tend to read it instead of looking at the kanji (even if I usually know the reading of the kanji), so there is a failure to associate the kanji with the word. So instead of creating a separate deck with Q:kanji/A:prouncation it seems a better idea to combine the two.

But then again, what do you think? Using this method of learning, would it be more logical (or more useful) to create another deck to solely test kanji readings? Should each deck only have one purpose?

(When I think about it, it's really cool that reading Japanese (the furigana) can feel like cheating. But anyways, there you go.)

Hi

If I have two decks (deck 'a' and deck 'b') both locally and on the internet, and WITHOUT an internet connection I use desktop Anki to work on deck 'a' then deck 'b'. Then later when I have a connection I start the desktop Anki again, it goes through the sync process, does this sync both decks that have changed since the last sync or just deck 'b' (the open deck)?

-Mex

resolve wrote:

open deck

This is what I thought. Would it be an idea to have Anki keep track of all changed/used decks and update them all when a connection is next available to it? This would avoid users forgetting to update each deck every time.

-Mex

dilandau23 wrote:

Personally I think it seems better to just use one deck and have different tags with different priorities.  That would, in effect, be the same thing, except that it works right now.

I currently have five different decks containing very unrelated things. I want to group like with like like when I study, As far as I can see, the best/least messy way of doing this is to run separate decks.

-Mex

Hello!  I've combed this thread and the Anki forum for an answer and could not find one, so I will ask here.  I just discovered Anki and am very excited to use it, but I want to study from work and at home.  I have the Systems Admin from Hell at work, so no installing Anki, which means I need to run it from a flash drive.  Can someone explain how to do this for the programming impaired?  I have NO programming experience.  This makes no sense to me:

<Can I run Anki from a flashdrive?

Sure. Start Anki with a command-line argument pointing to a directory you want to use for configuration files. It doesn't have to exist.

On Windows, you might want to copy c:\program files\Anki to e:\Anki. Then create a shortcut on the flashdrive, and edit the properties. Change the command line to something like:

\Anki\anki.exe -c \myankiconfig

>

Could someone explain to me how to do this?  Explain it to me step by step like I am a two year old.

Also, once I'm running Anki off my flash drive, is there a way to sync my decks with my home computer?  Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!!!!  Only 3 weeks till 1kyuu exam!!!

Last edited by FudoMyo (2007 November 13, 4:17 am)

FudoMyo wrote:

Ok, I got it to work on my flashdrive all by myself -- I think.  So far, so good.
Now, if I add cards on my computer at home, how would I sync decks with what's on the flash drive?

Sync when you begin or finish reviewing on either the flash drive or the home PC, and you'll be all set.

Go through the deck once selecting '4' for every card, and the cards will be randomly spaced in a 3 day period. You can adjust the period before you start in the deck properties, to distribute the deck over a period of 30 days or similar.

If you think that the provided Heisig deck "sucks", then make your own. The sample decks are provided to give you an idea of what Anki is capable of, not to be an exhaustive list of all you can study.

There are two reasons Anki is slow on the Mac. One of them is that the Mac version of the graphics libraries is not very well written, and it uses a lot of CPU just to render the buttons, windows, etc. Even when Anki is idling, it uses CPU usage.

The other problem is that 'psycho', a just-in-time optimizer for python, doesn't run on the Mac. Apparently porting it is not a huge amount of work, but nobody has stepped forward to do it.

I'm not happy with Anki's performance on Mac computers, but I figure available and slow is better than not available at all.

Anki performs well enough on my Macbookpro. I think the reason it's so slow on your 12" PPC Powerbook is because, well, it's an old and slow system.

I've never programmed in Python (nor on a Mac), but if the graphics are the major bottleneck would it be difficult to use the native drawing API (which can be 100% gpu accelerated in Leopard /w QuartzGL)?