So the way I have my Anki structured is I downloaded AnKing and study the decks by unsuspending the cards so that they appear in my filtered deck (with filter is:due).
However, I also make my own decks (via “create deck”) which are normal decks not filtered decks. Once I have studied these decks, I delete the deck and have assumed that they appear in my “is:due” decks but that have not been.
I am worried the decks I have been creating are all lost and have not been able to locate them from AnkiWeb. Any help with recovering these ?? Thank you
If you delete them, then all the cards there will be gone. Filtered decks can only pull in cards that exist in other decks. See Filtered Decks - Anki Manual.
Any specific reason why you believed the cards will not be deleted?
If you’ve been doing this for a long time, you should probably check every backup you have. Once you find a deck you need to recover, export it in .apkg format (make sure you include media/scheduling) and keep it aside. Then go through the rest of backups.
Once you’ve got all decks that the backups have, you can serially import the .apkg files you saved.
Thank you for explaining this. I deleted my decks under the misunderstanding they would be transferred to my filtered deck is:due (because I have been used to studying from filtered decks for the past few years). Silly mistake I know.
So I followed the Backups - Anki Manual link you proposed and it told me to find my deleted notes “deleted.txt” in your “profile folder”. I’m not sure where this is … I tried to search on AnkiWeb for this but can’t find it. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Also, I’m worried about ‘opening a backup’ and erasing current decks / data…
If you just want to recover the text of your deleted notes, deleted.txt will do. But if you also want to recover your review history and scheduling, you should restore from full backups instead. Backups - Anki Manual
You’re right to worry about that! When you restore a backup it will overwrite your current collection. There are a couple ways to approach this –
Make a manual back up before you start – label it clearly and save it in a safe place. Then when you’re done looking through your old backups and turning them into APKG files, restore your manual backup, then start importing the APKGs one by one (starting with the oldest).
Create a new (temporary) profile just for importing these COLPKG backups and turning them into APKG files. You won’t be able to use the “revert to backup” option, because they are the backups for a different profile. But you can import those COLPKG files, which you’ll find in your main profile’s backups folder.
I am happy to just recover the cards that I lost, I don’t mind if I have to relearn them all again. I searched in the anki browse search bar and also on AnkiWeb for deleted.txt and nothing came up though? Where am I supposed to copy deleted.txt into?
Sounds like I don’t need to open a back up then which is good news.
It’s a text file stored on your local device. And you’ll have to import it into Anki.
Anki logs deleted notes to a text file called deleted.txt in your profile folder. These notes are in a text format that can be read by File>Import, though please note the import feature only supports a single note type at one time, so if you have deleted notes from different note types, you’ll need to split the file into separate files for each note type first.