Anki now no longer shows me any reverse cards. This seems to be across all my decks, and has only started happening recently.
I’ve checked the following:
-sibling burying (all off)
-changing card types to another type and then back
-checking the cards I’ve got are in fact basic (with reversed card)
-updating Anki to a more current version
I’ve kinda fixed it, by following this forum named “ reverse-cards-aren-t-working”. However I’ve lost almost a year of progress for these reverse cards that got deleted somehow. Is there any way to make sure it’s not possible to delete half of a database’s records without even as much as a popup?This is a really damaging bug, and I’m 90% sure that it only happened because I made a note the wrong type by mistake, and changed it. I didn’t know it’d change it for every record in my entire Anki collection. Please can we have at least a “this will delete x many records” popup, like the one that I had when I added these lost records back?
[Link for reference: Reverse cards aren´t working]
If you used Change Note Type – it applies to all notes you have selected. It warns you about what will be deleted, but it’s up to you to consider how many notes you’ve selected.
If you did it by modifying the note type in the template editor, like by deleting a card type – the window tells you explicitly that it will affect all notes that use that type –
To get back what you lost (since it sounds like it’s too late to Undo or force a one-way sync?) – you can retrieve that review history from an automatic backup. If you’re not worried about losing anything else that has happened since then (edits, updates, other review history), you can simply restore the backup from just before you made the destructive change. If you’re not sure when it was, you can keep trying them one-by-one until you find it.
But if you have things you want to preserve that have happened since then, you will need to be more careful. It also matters exactly what those things are – e.g., newly added notes would be pretty easy, but review history on these same notes you’re restoring might be harder.
