Tags disappeared

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I have been using a filtered deck to study recently. every time i unsuspend a card i tag it and then the deck is tag:___ is:new OR tag:____ is:due. it usually works great. I have probably 500 cards under each tag. I just opened anki to study today and only 1 card is tagged in one of my tags and 5ish in another. I tried restarting anki and updating it. My tags are still gone. I also just realized a bunch of my tags have completely disappeared. Please help!

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I haven’t heard anything like this reported before.

  1. Tags are applied at the note-level, not to cards. Where are you looking on the cards/notes that you’re not seeing the tags?
  2. Where are you looking for the tags themselves and not seeing them?
  3. Have you tried running Check Database?
  4. Since you sync your collection between multiple devices, are you careful to make sure you sync when you open the app, and sync when you close/leave the app, every time, on every device?

If you aren’t able to get them to reappear, you might need to go back –

  • If you want to roll-back changes you’ve made just now (and haven’t closed or synced since then) – Edit > Undo [Ctrl Z] the change. [If you select it from the menu Anki will describe which change it is reversing with each click (useful when you can’t see it happening!).]
  • If you want to roll-back changes made longer ago than that – Option A: Restore from an automatic or manual backup [but you’ll lose any reviews and changes you’ve made since that backup was created].
    • If you just want to grab one thing from a backup (like the text of a template, or one deck out of many, or a set of notes/cards that use a particular note type), you can minimize data loss by importing the backup into a brand new (temporary) profile, find what you’re looking for, copy/export it, and then import it into your main profile.
  • If you want to roll-back changes made longer ago than that – Option B: Force a one-way sync and download from AnkiWeb [but you’ll lose any reviews and changes you’ve made since your last sync].
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