Protecting Fields Not Saving

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I’m not sure what caused this or why this is now happening, but whenever I try to protect certain fields (checking them in the list that pops up) and press “ok”, the changes don’t actually seem to “save.” When I right click the same card and return to the “protect fields” list, those same fields appear unchecked. the only one that remains checked is “lecture notes,” which I modified last night anyway.

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I understand your frustration with the protected fields not saving. This is an issue with the AnkiHub “Protect Fields” feature not persisting your selections.

Based on the documentation, there are two ways to protect fields in AnkiHub:

1. Via the browser (which you’re trying to use):

   • Right-clicking on cards and selecting “AnkiHub: Protect Fields”
   • This should add special tags like AnkiHub_Protect::FieldName to protect specific fields

2. Via the AnkiHub website (recommended alternative):

   • Go to the main page of your deck on the AnkiHub website
   • Click the 3 dots in the top right corner
   • Select “Manage protected data”
   • Check the fields you want to protect

Since the browser method isn’t working for you, I’d recommend trying the website method instead. This applies the protection globally to all cards in the deck for the selected fields.

For the browser method, you might want to check if there are any issues with:

• AnkiHub add-on version (try updating to the latest version)
• Permissions for Anki’s temp folder (which can sometimes cause saving issues)
• After protecting fields, synchronizing with AnkiWeb to ensure changes persist

The “Lecture Notes” field that remains protected was likely set as protected by default in the AnKing deck, which is why it’s persisting while your new selections aren’t.

If you continue having issues, you could try manually adding the protection tags (like AnkiHub_Protect::FieldName) to your cards, though the website method would be simpler.

[Brian_BH]

Hello,

I would be happy to help.

Hmm, I can’t say that I’ve seen that issue before, or can immediately recall having anyone report it

Just to work through the obvious stuff: can you go to your top menu bar, click Anki - About Anki, and let me know what version number you have?

[abdo.nh]

Can you also use AnkiHub > Help > Upload logs and post the filename shown?

[Ahmed7]

After you’ve checked them, does the tag still appear on the card or does it get removed (can you take a screenshot of the tags on that card as well)?