# Is there any addon that allows importing apkg files even if there are duplicate cards?

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**Created:** [January 29, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-any-addon-that-allows-importing-apkg-files-even-if-there-are-duplicate-cards/26923 "2023-01-29T23:40:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![MIZMU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@MIZMU](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/MIZMU)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-any-addon-that-allows-importing-apkg-files-even-if-there-are-duplicate-cards/26923/1 "2023-01-29T23:40:40Z")

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Is there any addEven if it is only part of his activity.on that allows importing apkg files even if there are duplicate cards?

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**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-any-addon-that-allows-importing-apkg-files-even-if-there-are-duplicate-cards/26923/2 "2023-01-30T08:46:29Z")

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> [@Importing duplicate cards, or duplicating a deck](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/importing-duplicate-cards-or-duplicating-a-deck/26737):
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> I’m using v ⁨2.1.56 (07fd88dd)⁩. I’d like to use a deck that I have built as the starting-place for another similar but not identical deck. I have tried to export the existing deck, in apkg and colpkg, and then import it into the new deck. This appears to delete the cards that were the basis of the export and import the ‘new’ ones in their stead, not … as I had hoped … import the identical cards into my new deck. Is there some way of importing duplicate cards into a new, empty, deck?

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**Author:** ![MIZMU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@MIZMU](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/MIZMU)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-there-any-addon-that-allows-importing-apkg-files-even-if-there-are-duplicate-cards/26923/3 "2023-01-30T19:20:33Z")

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Thanks. But it doesn’t help me because I need a code to bypass the software’s check for duplicates.  
The reason I need such code is that I’m building a addon that contains thousands of apkg files and gives the option to import them. Sometimes there is a need for a double import such as a daily study that contains questions that have already been imported in the past and now need to be taught again under this order.