Anki only saves cloze card type

[memo314]

My anki deck only saves to the cloze 1 card type. When I add a Basic card and make sure that the card type is Basic, I get the following error message:

You have a cloze note type but have not made any cloze deletions. Proceed?

If I say yes, and then try to change the card type when the card is in the deck, I can set-up cloze —> basic type change, but nothing happens.

The deck seems to be locked into creating only cloze card types.

I tried uninstalling Anki and downloading it again. The problem persists.

How can I fix this?

P.S. If I create a new user profile, then everything works fine. I can create a new deck and new Basic cards in that deck and the new cards work just like a Basic card should.

[ZornHadNoChoice]

First, understand the key concepts.

Next, explain more precisely what the problem is:

When I add a Basic card and make sure that the card type is Basic, I get the following error message:

You have a cloze note type but have not made any cloze deletions. Proceed?

Is your “Basic” note type actually a cloze note type, but renamed to “Basic”?

If I say yes, and then try to change the card type when the card is in the deck, I can set-up cloze —> basic type change, but nothing happens.

What do you mean by this? What are the steps you took to “set-up cloze —> basic type change”?

The deck seems to be locked into creating only cloze card types.

Do you mean that the cloze note type is pre-selected every time you try to add a card to this deck? I believe Anki automatically selects the note type of the last note you added to the selected deck.

[memo314]

Here is a screen shot of the card I wish to add:

And here is the what happens when I hit “Add”:

This is the first card in the deck. If I hit yes and then go into deck and click on Browse, this is what I get:

Note that while the card was originally set up as a Basic card type, it is created as a Cloze card type. If further info would be helpful, just let me know.

[Eltaurus]

@ZornHadNoChoice

Is your “Basic” note type actually a cloze note type, but renamed to “Basic”?

It looks like this is indeed the problem. Judging by the set of the fields in you screenshot, you have a cloze Note Type named “Basic” in your user profile for some reason. That’s why it generates cloze Card Types, and why creating new profile helps (it makes a fresh set of Note Types with all the defaults).

To fix it in your profile, try going to Tools → Manage Note Types and renaming your current “Basic” Note Type. Then click Add → select Add: Basic (not Clone: any of the existing Note Types) → Ok. Use the new “Basic” Note Type to add cards.

[memo314]

I have followed your suggestions and all seems in order now. I haven’t used Anki for a few months but before that saving Basic cards was working ok. I’m not sure how the name “Basic” got associated with a Cloze card type. In any case, thanks kindly for your help!