"Please use the check database action, then try again" error message

I clicked on one of my decks and it says “Please use the check database action, then try again”. It is only showing me 2 cards in that deck even though there are about 80 cards total.
How do I go about fixing it.


The check database is a function of Anki.
https://docs.ankiweb.net/files.html#checking-your-collection
Run Tools>Check Database, then check your collection to see if it helped.

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@pavreh but only 18 out of 81 cards are showing up. How do I recover the rest of my cards that were in the deck?

What did check DB say when you ran it? If you’ve forgotten, you can restore from a backup and then try again.

https://faqs.ankiweb.net/restoring-an-automatic-backup-recovering-from-data-loss.html

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Thank you. It worked!

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