Syncing breaks my settings

Anki Syncing & AnkiWeb
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Hi,

I have a problem where the settings for my decks are changed every time I sync. For example, FSRS keeps being turned on and off.

I have tried following steps from other threads with the same issue but I could not fix the problem.

I use Ankidroid. The problem has arisen since I installed Anki on desktop.

My attempted solutions include:

  • Using the feature that forces a one way sync
  • Changed all the settings to the way I want them on both desktop and mobile before syncing (being sure to use the save button after making said changes)
  • Waiting for a day to see if changing the setting the next day would solve the issue (I would have thought a newer sync would override everything?)
  • Changing to the correct settings repeatedly and syncing

For now I have just removed network permissions for Anki on Android, so that I can at least study there without issue.

Anki desktop version: Version ⁨25.09.2 (3890e12c)⁊

Ankidroid version: 2.23.3 (with the same version number as the above)

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The only thing I can think of that would change the FSRS setting is flipping that switch. By any chance are you trying to enable FSRS for one Options preset, and disable it for another Options preset?

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You’re right. I hadn’t touched my settings in so long that I forgot that you can’t have FSRS toggled for individual decks.

I was temporarily turning FSRS off for a new deck, because I was adding new cards in bulk and wanted to send the ones I already know well far into the future. I did that by changing the easy interval when FSRS was off. Do I have any other option for sending some new cards far into the future (since I need to do this for hundreds of cards, I do not want to manually add review dates to all of them)

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I assume you can just Set Due Date (though I’ve never used this feature before). See Browsing - Anki Manual.

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“Set Due Date” is probably the best way. You can select cards and send them randomly to a range of days. You won’t be able to instantly set them with longer intervals using FSRS, but you’ll be able to grade them Easy when they start popping up, and FSRS will quickly lengthen their intervals. I think that would be far better than feeding fake grade information into your review history.

Another option is to just not add notes for material you already know that well, or if you do, suspend the cards until you find that you want to start studying them.