Killersquierl Wrote:Is there way to merge decks?

Yeah, I was wondering this as well: pretty soon I plan on transferring a whole bunch (~15,000) cards of Academic Decathlon over to Anki with the workload split between several people. Ergo, we would need to some way to eventually merge the decks.

The current solution is just fine though: the almighty resolve has thought of everything!

I'm sure this has been addressed at some point in this thread, but I just installed Anki and all I'm getting from my imported Mnemosyne files are boxes where all the characters should be. My computer can Japanese text fine otherwise. Any ideas? I'd really like to get into this program, so any help would be appreciated.

Hmm. Go into the display properties, and change the font for the kanji field to something you have on your system. My guess is that you don't have the default font available.

The autocomplete function in the tag boxes is beautiful. Thanks for that.

A question about the scheduling system: do the initial intervals affect the long time scheduling? I would like to bring up cards of all ease levels a bit more often and was wondering if I could achieve this by tweaking the initial values?

No, there is no relation to the long term scheduling, except how "learnt" a card starts off. If you want shorter scheduling times, choose smaller numbers (3 instead of 4, 2 instead of 3). But note that 2 is actually going backwards, reducing the time since your last study. 3 is pretty conservative.

Hi Folks,
I've been off the forum for a while, but glad to see everyone still here and some new folks too
I download Anki a while back and didn't really get into it. I've returned to it and have fallen in love with it. I'm a believer!! Resolve, thank you so very much. The syncing is a marvelous function.
I do have bit of a problem that I haven't figured out. I've been importing the Heisig 100 at a time everyday. The first 200 went well. However, now I cannot import- at all...
I'm running MacOSX 10.3.9 on a iBook G3 800. My process was to Save As (text, tab-delimited) from Excel, open the file in Text Edit and Save as UTF-8. The resulting file could be imported.
I did play around with the layout in Edit->Model Properties-> Cards, Question Format and Answer Format, because I imported the first 200 wrong and the keyword was the answer. And I have synced a couple of times with the server. Other than that I'm not sure what I did or the cause. Also, I tried creating a new deck and reimporting to no avail. Not sure if it's the application or operator error
Anybody have anything like this happen?

Do you get an error when you try and import, either in the import dialog, or in the system console? What happens?

Sorry, I forgot to mention... Nothing happens. I hit the button to import, get the file menu to select the file and then when I hit ok. The window closes and I get to Anki. The button remains unchanged.

Don't hit okay, hit import on the right :-)

Sorry, I must be missing something.
Deck->Import
Import window opens
File to import: Choose file...
The window opens, I choose my file, I hit Open.
I go back to the Import window. The import window appears unchanged.
I don't see import in the right.
The answer is probably staring me in the face

You've selected "comma separated value" from the list of available import types, right? If the import window doesn't change after selecting a file, it's probably reporting an error in the system log. Locate the console window (it's in applications/system tools or similar), start it up and then try again.

I have selected "comma separated value". There is an error. I pulled it from the console. I'm assuming that's what you wanted.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ankiqt/ui/importing.pyc", line 81, in changeFile
File "ankiqt/ui/tools.pyc", line 49, in getFile
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 28-29: ordinal not in range(128)
In my limited experience with Unix/Linux/Python. I assume there is a problem with the text file. I tried to reimport with a newly created file and got the same error.
Maybe my .txt creation is a problem?

Okay, the problem is a debugging statement that is not supposed to be in there. I didn't think I left that in for the release. The next Anki release should fix it.

Thanks for the report!

Would it be possible to get a detailed description of how the scheduling algorithm works? Maybe on the wiki?

No problem. Glad I could help. Any idea when the next release may be?

Resolve, one more thing. I had the OS GUI set to Japanese, so I wasn't entirely confident in my Excel-->UTF 8-text conversion. I went to my other Mac (desktop) and noticed that there were a couple other steps to ensure that the text file was UTF-8, .txt and NOT .rtf and UTF-16 which seemed to be the default. So I converted a test document on my desktop and easily imported it into Anki on my laptop. So, there may not actually be an error in the debugging statement... Something to think about.
Thanks for the great software and if you need a Mac beta-tester, I'm your man!

Just started back at school and updated anki on the second PC that I use.

THe deck on her is terribly outdated and has a different name to the one that I use at home. If I create a new deck on this PC with the same name as the one at home, will all the information from that deck be automatically imported into this empty deck?

Just thought I would ask now in case that won't happen and I delete the deck by accident.

If you create a new deck, then yes, all the information on the server for a deck with the same sync name should be transferred over. I'd advise doing that over trying to merge the old deck.

I merged the JLPT 3+4 deck with the JLPT 2 deck...it seems smaller than the two decks individually. Is that just because of duplicates between the two decks?

What does "seems smaller" mean? Is it just a feeling, or are the numbers actually different? :-)

JLPT 3 and 4 822 72 (+10) delete
JLPT2 1314 13 (+644) delete

merges to

Test Merge 1824 68 (+493) delete

Okay, I'll check it out sometime today.

Megaqwerty Wrote:If size is the only price for better auto-furigana, then, heck, bring it on. I keep Anki on my smaller of flashdrives and even for that baby, another 50 MB is nothing.

Although, it is ultimately up to the user to proofread everything.

sorry to jump back to this, but this thread multiplies so quickly...

anyway, if one is using an IME to enter the kanji into the expression field, it shouldn't be too difficult to glance down at the auto-filled reading field and change it if it's wrong. right?

i am a huge fan of sleekly designed applications, so i can say i personally would be loath to trade 50MB (essentially more than a 200% jump in overall program size) for this minor convenience.

am i missing something more important though?

decamer0n Wrote:anyway, if one is using an IME to enter the kanji into the expression field, it shouldn't be too difficult to glance down at the auto-filled reading field and change it if it's wrong. right?

i am a huge fan of sleekly designed applications, so i can say i personally would be loath to trade 50MB (essentially more than a 200% jump in overall program size) for this minor convenience.

am i missing something more important though?

I really wouldn't call that a minor convenience it's more like a major time saver and 50MB is nothing for that.