# Deleting a deck but moving the deck's cards to a tag- possible?

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**Created:** [August 19, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/deleting-a-deck-but-moving-the-decks-cards-to-a-tag-possible/48387 "2024-08-19T15:05:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![swatimk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@swatimk](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/swatimk)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/deleting-a-deck-but-moving-the-decks-cards-to-a-tag-possible/48387/1 "2024-08-19T15:05:01Z")

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is it possible to move the cards in a deck to a tag? basically delete a deck without deleting the cards? thank you.

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**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/deleting-a-deck-but-moving-the-decks-cards-to-a-tag-possible/48387/2 "2024-08-19T15:20:50Z")

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Not really.

- Decks are containers that hold cards. You can move cards from one deck to another. But a card has to be in a deck.
- Tags are applied to notes, not cards. You can select all of the cards in a deck and add a tag to them through the Notes menu, but it will also affect all siblings of those cards, regardless of what deck they are in.

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**Author:** ![swatimk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@swatimk](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/swatimk)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/deleting-a-deck-but-moving-the-decks-cards-to-a-tag-possible/48387/3 "2024-08-19T15:59:12Z")

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Gotcha. All of my cards come from a preexisting file that I downloaded a long time ago, which were sorted into many different tags. Most of my decks are decks that I created and that weren’t set from this initial file. Is what you are saying still true in this instance?

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**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/deleting-a-deck-but-moving-the-decks-cards-to-a-tag-possible/48387/4 "2024-08-19T16:39:01Z")

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Yes. Decks hold cards. Tags are applied to notes (all the cards of a note). Those things are constant

But perhaps if you explain what you are ultimately trying to accomplish, there’s a way to do that?

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**Author:** ![sorata](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/sorata/32/34115_2.png) [@sorata](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/sorata)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/deleting-a-deck-but-moving-the-decks-cards-to-a-tag-possible/48387/5 "2024-08-19T17:02:11Z")

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Do you want to create deck/deck hierarchies that imitate your tags? For example, select all notes with “urinology” tag and move them to a deck with the same name. If you want complete removal of decks, that’s not possible though.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/deleting-a-deck-but-moving-the-decks-cards-to-a-tag-possible/48387/6 "2024-09-18T17:03:10Z")

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