"Optimize all profiles." But "Default profile" is the parent folder. What happens to the subfolders when I learn only the parent folder?

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Hello,
Anki is very useful, and I’ve also found FSRS to be very good, as well as the ability to optimize all stacks directly in Anki without any add-ons.

But I have a question about this:

To avoid such chaos, I use stacks as parent folders, so to speak.
For example: The parent folder is called “Greek,” and one of the four sub-stacks within it is “Beginner: German - Greek” (another would then be “Beginner: Greek - German,” another “Intermediate: German - Greek,” etc.)
I have a separate stack profile for each of the four sub-stacks.
But the parent folder is also assigned to the “Standard” stack profile.
It often happens that when I’m learning, I don’t go into the subfolders, but simply click on the parent folder (e.g., Greek here) to learn everything in it.

My very specific question, though, is:
If I click on “Optimize all stacks” in the settings, what exactly happens?
Does the entire optimization get messed up because it rates all four sub-stacks equally because of the parent folder “Greek,” which is assigned to the standard profile?

Or does it really optimize each sub-folder independently?
Then I wonder if clicking on “All stack profiles” actually does the same thing. Does this also mean the default folder?

is that understandable?
Can someone help me urgently before I ruin all my learning progress of the last years?

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You’re using words like “folders” and “stacks” – which are common ways to understand (and localized translations) for “decks.” You’re also using the word “profile” – but by that, I don’t think you mean it the way that word is used in Anki. If you’re using a localized version, it might be easier if you switch your interface language to English to get the proper terminology – or just use the words you have on your screen and we can look up what they mean.

FSRS doesn’t optimize for a deck – it optimizes for an Options preset, which can be used by any number of decks. So when you click “Optimize All Presets,” it does the same thing as if you went into each preset and clicked “Optimize Current Preset.”

There’s nothing you can do in by optimization that can ruin any of your progress. Optimization doesn’t even change your card scheduling – it just gets FSRS ready to schedule your cards.

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