Lost 3 year streak

hello, please help me I am silently freaking out I wanted a fresh start yet still have my streak of 3 years so

  • I backup the decks and put it in all in one 2025-2026

  • I have phone with a new deck with 7 flashcards

  • I picked sync on the laptop whilst I deleted all flashcards

  • I did not know that if I picked ankiweb I’d also lose my 3 year streak

  • I thought it’d just put the deck in the laptop and still the streak is there

  • I tried putting the backed up back so that I might get the 3 years streak back

  • it did not and it was from 2023 when I started

  • in conclusion I want my 3 year streak back, please help me

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If you use this add-on you can add a streak on the specified date.
addon: Backfill a Day (Heatmap Streak Fixer)

It sounds like you overwrote your old collection with a new mostly empty collection. A “streak” is just an add-on looking at the days you have review history in your collection, so if you get rid of that review history in your old collection, your streak goes too.

First, you’ll need to restore a backup from before the one-way sync. On desktop, there will be a backup that was created immediately before you did that. Backups - Anki Manual

But you can’t merge the 2 separate collections just by syncing – because the first sync will always be one-way. To merge them, you need to preserve one of them first, set up syncing, and then re-import it. Syncing with AnkiWeb - Anki Manual

If you are also trying to delete your old decks, that’s usually okay, because Anki will preserve their review history for stats (and streak) purposes. However, you can’t do that export/import-APKG-collection-merge process with that collection, because that old review history no longer belongs to those cards, and you’ll lose it.

You either need to merge the collections first, and then you can delete the decks/note you don’t want. Or you need to have the other newer collection be the one you export/import.