Having multiple copies of the same card

[nenavo]

Hi,

I love Anki. Absolute lifesaver, but sometimes it infuriates me for not allowing me to have multiple copies of the same cards in different decks. Especially when it is a deck of 3000+ cards and 300 just don’t get imported because of it.
“328 double cards were found and therfore not imported”
I cannot search all those 300 cards by hand and change their location, making the deck useless since i am missing “unknown” parts of it (and I don’t want to, because i need them in those decks seperately - doing the work would make the first deck useless). I do not understand why it forces me to only have 1 copy of each card in total.

Is there any way around this (normal option, addon etc)? I don’t want Anki to just not import parts of a new deck, just because the card already exists in another deck.

I only found 1 post from a year ago, with no solution. Hoping there is one now.

Thank you very much

Cheers

[abdo]

The text/csv import screen has an option to duplicate cards.

[dae]

Anki is designed to track how well you remember cards, and it can’t do that as effectively if you have multiple copies of the same content. @abdo has recently contributed a new importing screen that will make it easier to locate the existing cards in your collection, and that should become available when the next beta version is released.