Hello,
Upon updating the Anking Step 1 Deck recently, it appears that the tags that I added to some of the Anking cards are deleted. I carefully tagged all the cards that pertain to certain lectures and blocks at my school, as I pair Anking with my in-house lectures and exam preparation.
Going back to retag and locate the cards that pertain to each lecture would be a major detriment to me, and I would greatly appreciate it if someone would please help me with this matter.
Update: just realized I have to protect the tag every time I make a new one. Wow.
Any way I can I can redo the removal of these tags? It would be tedious to go back and find the cards
Hello,
Yes, you will need to protect your personal tags. You can create a main tag and place all your other tags inside it. That way, if you protect the main tag, all its subtags will also be protected. You can find a tutorial on how to do that here: How to Protect Personal Tags from being Overwritten
To undo the deletion, you can try restoring your collection from a backup. Please restore from a backup created before this incident occurred, and then protect the tags before updating the deck again. Here’s a guide on how to restore from a backup: How to Restore from Backup
Let me know if you need help with anything else. 
Would I be able to restore only the Anking deck from the backup? I don’t want to restore so that my other decks get rewritten
Hello,
I would be happy to help. 
A backup will, by definition, restore your entire collection. Anki, at least, doesn’t have a way to restore only one deck from your collection
In theory, I suppose it would be possible to restore from a backup, export a single deck, then restore from a more current backup, then import that deck that you exported
But, that’s complete conjecture on my part and I can’t say that I can guarantee either way that it’s possible or that we’d be of much help there beyond noting that, in theory, it might be possible.
Beyond that, Anki’s restore-from-a-backup feature will restore your entire collection as a rule.
Please let me know if that answers your question, and if there’s anything else I can help with.
You could import the backup file to a separate profile, export the relevant tagged cards from there as apkg then import them to your main profile.
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