Hello!
Thank you to the Anking team for all your work with the deck! It has been a truly incredible resource for me during my preclincal time.
I received an email this morning from âsupport@ankihub.netâ [subject line: âImportant: AnKing Deck Policy Update on AnkiHubâ] indicated that I was either subscribed to or had uploaded a deck that used the Anking name but was not created by AnKingMed. After reviewing the website, I realized that while learning how to use Anki, I had mistakenly subscribed to an incorrect deck at the beginning of the academic year. Since then I have unsuspended and reviewed around 16,000 cards.
I followed the instructions in the email and have unsubscribed from the incorrect deck and exported an up-to-date version of my progress to my desktop. I have been attempting to determine if it is possible to import the progress that I have made on the incorrect deck to the official Anking deck. Ideally, I hope to find a solution that I can receive the AnkiHub updates while not losing my study progress with the incorrect deck. Thank you for your time!
Best,
Xavier
Hello,
Iâm sorry to hear about all the headaches and confusion. Letâs see if we canât get you squared away:
The good news:
- Most decks that were, at one time or another, borrowed or otherwise modified from the AnKing deck will carry with them little bits of evidence of their shared lineage. This most commonly takes place via their note IDâs (itâs a specific alpha-numeric identifying number that marks a given note; not likely to be something youâve noticed unless you were really digging around but itâs buried in the identifying information of the note itself. It is essentially how Anki ârecognizesâ notes).
What that means is that, in most cases, updating to the correct (and current) AnKing deck is a relatively simple affair. As long as you have âyourâ AnKing deck in your collection, when you go to install the correct AnKing deck Anki will run a sweep check of all the cards in your collection and, provided they have the same note IDâs (which is usually the case), Anki will simply update them in place rather than replace them.
Happily, this means you get all the proper updates without affecting your learning progress at all.
That being said, while this is the case about 98% of the time itâs hard to guarantee that it is always the case, all of the time. Depending on how someone might have modified the deck you were using, it is possible that the note IDâs are different. This is pretty rare, though not unheard of.
Worst case-scenario, it sounds like you already have an exported copy of your current deck, with progress, so as long as youâve exported that properly we should be safe with a backup just in case.
To make sure, double-check that youâve exported it with scheduling information, as so:
What I would do if I were you:
- You already have an exported version of your deck, which means we have a safe backup set aside just in case. This is good news.
- I would import your existing deck (if itâs not already present in your collection).
- Subscribe to the correct AnKing deck on AnkiHub.
- âInstallâ the AnKing deck (just say yes to whatever it asks, or prompts it gives you).
- Give it a few seconds to update (depending on the degree to which it needs to be updated, this could take a minute, maybe two, or so).
- Go find a card that you know youâve reviewed, and double-check that it has still retained its review history.
In about 98-99% of cases, this will do the trick. Itâs very rare that this doesnât work out in the end. But, give that a shot and let me know how you fare, and then weâll go from there. 
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Hello!
I gave this a try and it worked perfectly! I was doing things in the incorrect order to get it to merge properly. Thank you for your help!
Best,
Xavier
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