Ankiconnect needs an update (media)

[slabzzz]

[serpro69]

Just noticed the same issue with the latest version of the plugin (3.5.0)
The result is - media files aren't exported along with the cards, although the console reports that media is being added:

plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66042 Requesting deletion of notes..
plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66048 Requesting addition of media...
plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66052 Adding media file:  bfe17ed2.mp3
plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66052 Adding media file:  b67e9c0a.mp3
plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66052 Adding media file:  7abb9e18.mp3
...
plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66074 Please update AnkiConnect! The way the script has added media files has changed.
    parse_requests_1 @ plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66074
    requests_1 @ plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66068
    await in requests_1 (async)
    scanVault @ plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66353
    await in scanVault (async)
    callback @ plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66395
    Oq @ app.js:1
    t.onChooseItem @ app.js:1
    t.onChooseSuggestion @ app.js:1
    t.selectSuggestion @ app.js:1
    e.useSelectedItem @ app.js:1
    (anonymous) @ app.js:1
    e.handleKey @ app.js:1
    e.onKeyEvent @ app.js:1
plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66143 Requesting cards to be moved to target deck...
plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66149 Requesting tags to be replaced...
plugin:obsidian-to-anki-plugin:66161 All done!

On anki side the AnkiConnect addon is latest version and does not detect any new updates, so I'm assuming it's the obsidian plugin that needs to be updated.

My current workaround is copying media manually to anki's collection.media directory, but that is error prone and hard to do.

[zozzzC]

Has this been fixed yet? I am still getting this error. Also thanks so much for the suggestion to just manually copy paste the media files--that worked perfectly for me.

[arne314]

I had the very same problem and traced it down to a problem with my Anki installation via flatpak. ObsidianToAnki calls the AnkiConnect API /storeMediaFile endpoint with an absolute file path to the media file, which is not possible in my sandboxed flatpak environment. A simple switch to the official binary from https://apps.ankiweb.net/ solved the problem.

[serpro69]

I had the very same problem and traced it down to a problem with my Anki installation via flatpak. ObsidianToAnki calls the AnkiConnect API /storeMediaFile endpoint with an absolute file path to the media file, which is not possible in my sandboxed flatpak environment. A simple switch to the official binary from https://apps.ankiweb.net/ solved the problem.

That's interesting.
I also have anki installed via flatpak. However, I'm fairly certain this has worked before with a flatpak'd anki, so there could still be a fix possible.

[arne314]

The /storeMediaFile endpoint also provides the option to post the raw file content as base64 instead of the file path. If ObsidianToAnki used that in the past, that might explain why it's suddenly broken for you.

[pat-richter]

I had the same issue after switching to a new system with Anki as flatpak. The "issue" is actually a security feature of flatpak. Access to the assets folder needs to be explicitly granted.

In my case flatpak override --user net.ankiweb.Anki --filesystem=~/Obsidian/99_Assets

You can check the permissions with flatpak info --show-permissions net.ankiweb.Anki