How to Keep My Edits When Switching from Zanki to AnKing?

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I am new to the anking, can anyone help me with this problem, i really need some help

I’ve been using the Zanki deck and made quite a few edits to it (like adding images or extra info). Now I want to switch to AnKing. But when I downloaded AnKing, all my Zanki cards with the same card number got replaced by the AnKing versions, and my edits disappeared.

Is there a way to keep my personal edits while start using AnKing?

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Hi @wingtl, welcome to the AnkiHub community!

I understand your situation - you’ve put effort into customizing your Zanki cards and don’t want to lose those changes when moving to AnKing. This is a common concern for many users.

The good news is that with AnkiHub, you can protect your personal edits while still benefiting from AnKing updates! Here’s how you can approach this:

Option 1: Subscribe to AnKing through AnkiHub

The best solution is to use the AnkiHub add-on to subscribe to the AnKing deck. With AnkiHub:

  1. You can protect specific fields from being overwritten during updates
  2. By default, AnkiHub automatically protects these fields:
    • Lecture Notes
    • Missed Questions
    • Pathoma
    • Boards and Beyond
    • First Aid
    • Additional Resources
    • Physeo

Fields like “Text” and “Extra” are not protected by default, but you can manually protect them.

How to protect your edits:

  1. For individual cards: Right-click on a card → “AnkiHub: Protect Fields” → Select the field(s) you want to protect
  2. For all cards of a specific field: On the AnkiHub website, go to your deck → click the 3 dots → “Manage protected data” → Select the fields to protect

Option 2: If you’ve already imported AnKing

If you’ve already imported AnKing and lost your edits, you might be able to recover them:

  1. Check if you have a backup of your Anki collection (automatic backups are in your Anki profile folder)
  2. You could restore your backup, then use AnkiHub to properly migrate to AnKing with field protection in place

There’s a detailed tutorial on how to manage protected fields here.

Let me know if you need more specific help with either approach. The AnkiHub solution is specifically designed to solve the exact problem you’re experiencing!

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Hello,

I would be happy to help. :slight_smile:

It looks like the bot pretty well answered your question, though please let us know if you have any other specific questions with which we can be of help. :mending_heart:

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Hi, I right-clicked the individual card in Zanki deck, but the “AnkiHub: Protect Fields” could not be used. Is there any step that I am missing?

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If you are clicking a card that is not related to AnkiHub, then the option to protect a field will not appear for use (since the field does not, and cannot, be protected).

Please let me know if that answers your question, and if there’s anything else I can help with. :slight_smile: