School Tags not Working After Downloading AnKing Step Deck

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I recently subscribed to and downloaded the AnKing Step Deck. My school had a deck sorted by in house lectures, which was based on AnKing Step Deck V11. I’m not sure if this is possible, but downloading the AnKing Step Deck seemed to have overwritten the tags on these cards, because they no longer appear when I search by these school-specific tags. (When I search by the lecture tag, none of the AnKing cards show up, either V11 or V12) To try to troubleshoot, I uploaded this school-specific deck to an alternative Anki profile on my laptop and it is able to pull up all the cards that have that tag. I am also subscribed to a school specific tag group on Anki Hub. Any thoughts on why this is happening and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi purplepancreas,

I understand you’re having issues with your school-specific tags after downloading the AnKing Step Deck through AnkiHub. Let me help troubleshoot this issue.

First, let me search for some relevant information that might help us understand what’s happening:

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Hi purplepancreas,

This is a common issue when subscribing to AnkiHub decks, as updates can indeed overwrite your school-specific tags. Fortunately, there’s a solution specifically designed for this situation!

What’s happening

When you download and sync the AnKing Step Deck from AnkiHub, it’s overwriting your school-specific tags because these tags aren’t part of the official AnkiHub deck structure.

How to fix it

You can protect your school-specific tags from being overwritten by using the Personal Tags Protection feature in AnkiHub. Here’s how:

  1. Open Anki and click on the AnkiHub button in the top menu bar
  2. Select Personal Tags
  3. Click on Add New Personal Tag
  4. Enter your school-specific tag prefix (for example, if your tags are like “School::Lecture1”, enter “School”)
  5. Click Save

This will prevent AnkiHub from overwriting those specific tags during future updates, allowing you to maintain both your school organization and the updated AnKing content.

For a visual walkthrough, check out this tutorial: How to Protect Personal Tags from being Overwritten

If you’re also subscribed to a school-specific tag group on AnkiHub, make sure those are properly synced by checking your AnkiHub Subscription settings.

Let me know if this solves your issue or if you need additional help!

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There are 100s of tags because there is one for each lecture. Do I need to need to write out each individual tag to protect it, or will it be protected if any part of the tag is specified? For example all the tags are of the format AnkiHub_Optional::NHB::NHB###, with, the ###s replaced with the number associated with each lecture.

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I’ll search for more specific information about protecting multiple tags with similar patterns to help answer your question.

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Hi purplepancreas,

Good news! You don’t need to protect each tag individually. You can protect all tags that share a common prefix pattern. In your case, with tags following the pattern AnkiHub_Optional::NHB::NHB###, you only need to add the main prefix to protect all of them at once.

How to protect your tag pattern:

  1. Open Anki and click on the AnkiHub button in the top menu
  2. Select Personal Tags
  3. Click on Add New Personal Tag
  4. Enter just the prefix part: AnkiHub_Optional::NHB
  5. Click Save

This will protect ALL tags that start with that prefix, meaning all your lecture-specific tags like AnkiHub_Optional::NHB::NHB123, AnkiHub_Optional::NHB::NHB456, etc. will be preserved during future updates.

You can verify this worked by checking if your tags remain after the next sync with AnkiHub. If you want to be extra cautious, you could even just use AnkiHub_Optional as the protected prefix to ensure all tags under that hierarchy are protected.

For any future school-specific tags, just make sure they follow a consistent prefix pattern, and you’ll only need to protect the prefix once.

Is there anything else you’d like help with regarding your AnkiHub setup?

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Hello,

I would be happy to help. :slight_smile:

Yeah, it is the case that AnkiHub functions by writing to, and editing, your local collection. That can include overwriting certain details, including tags, unless those tags are protected

As a result if you would like to preserve specific tags, in order to prevent AnkiHub from writing over them, you will want to protect those tags

You can follow this tutorial to restore your collection: How to Restore From Backup

Then, you can protect any individual or personal tags before updating: How to Protect Personal Tags from being Overwritten

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