I understand why the Basic note type is renamed to Basic+, as I said, “I guess this makes sense”.
Does it create a new note type? Because the Basic note type in the first profile disappears and all notes that were Basic (including un-exported ones) turn into Basic++, suggesting that Anki renamed the note type to Basic++, instead of either Basic or Basic+ (which would be more sensible).
I can’t check the note type ID, but I believe the note I created then exported and imported back still has the same note type ID, just under different names.
As I said:
That includes toggling the merge note type option, choosing the various update notes/note types options (specifically “Always” and “If newer”) and in many combinations.
I undid the import each time to make sure it’s not skipping because of previous imports. I also tried checking the database, renaming the note type to Basic before importing back to the first profile (which didn’t result in a Basic+ or Basic++ note type, further supporting my claim above), editing the note’s text then reviewing, and even tested with more than one note (one review and one new) to see if it only affects new cards.
Conclusion: learning progress is not imported unless you delete the notes in the first profile before importing.
I’m trying to split one of my decks into 3 profiles (technically, using AnkiDroid’s parallel apks) for… umm… “testing purposes”. I’d like to keep all the cards in my original profile with the ones in the other profiles suspended. Then every once in a while, I import the decks from the other profiles to have combined stats.
Well, you can’t use import to change the review history, period.
I understand that it’s a very niche use case and there’s already the workaround of deleting the notes, but if this is not the intended behavior, then I hope it’ll be changed in the future to make more sense.