Today I downloaded Anki as a result of a discussion at Hacker News. When I attempted to download a deck (none are built-in), I consistently got errors — complaints about bad ZIP files, file problems, and so on. After some digging, I found a techy workaround.
- Find an interesting deck using Anki’s shared deck list.
- Load
http://anki.ichi2.net/file/searchin your browser. - Search for the name of the deck you wanted. Note the number immediately
after its opening
[. For example, ‘Latin 101’ is33. - Open a command line (e.g. Terminal for Mac users).
- Type
curl http://anki.ichi2.net/file/get?id=NUMBER > deck.zip(again, ‘Latin 101’ would be33). - Open the resultant zip.
-
shared.ankiis your deck, and can be renamed if desired. No other files are needed.
