AnkiHub deleting empty filtered decks on sync

🐛 Bug
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Hello,

this has been brought up two times before by different people ( one, two ) but as of now has not been addressed and is unfortunately still an open issue.

AnkiHub deletes empty filtered deck on sync for me (and for others). It doesn’t happen if there is one or more cards in a filtered deck left, and doesn’t happen when I don’t sync with AnkiHub but only with Anki web.

Two solutions have been proposed so far to mitigate this, but none of them work for me:

  • checking the button to always create the filtered deck, even if it is empty → filtered deck still gets deleted
  • in AnkiHub deck management, uncheck subdecks → destroys the rather complex subdeck structure and is not something I can do

Thanks for reading and I hope this helps for looking into this more

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Just bumping this. I’m still running into this exact issue as of today, so it definitely hasn’t been resolved.

It’s particularly frustrating having to constantly remake my filtered decks every time I sync through AnkiHub. I rely on them pretty heavily, and losing them just because they’re temporarily empty is a big hassle.

Like OP said, this only happens when syncing via AnkiHub, not just AnkiWeb. The workarounds suggested earlier (forcing filtered deck creation, disabling subdecks) aren’t really usable or do not work.

Would really appreciate any updates or insight on this!

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Hello,

Our developers will take a look at this and inform you if there’s been a fix for this

Sorry for the inconvenience!