My anki deck is gone! help

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cescoz Member
From: Italy Registered: 2008-01-22 Posts: 131

I don't know how but my deck wih my heisig's progress has lost all the cards
I don't know what to do from now...
And why even without all the card and without media it has the same size?
Help!

Garland Member
From: Prague, Czech Republic Registered: 2008-02-17 Posts: 40

Are you sure the cards arenť suspended? Are you sure the cards aren't spaced? Haven't you simply opened a different anki file? Try opening the deck in notepad, if the decks cards are simply hidden, than the keywords should be visible in some parts of the file.

cescoz Member
From: Italy Registered: 2008-01-22 Posts: 131

With the notepad the file is full of txt...
This is a screen
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3015/34473438by3.th.jpg

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Garland Member
From: Prague, Czech Republic Registered: 2008-02-17 Posts: 40

Ok, see those english words spread across the text? Those are your keywords, a prove that your deck should be alive. And if the keywords are, the rest should be too.  Perhaps it is your own settings that are making the keywords vanish in Anki?

Try looking at them, and if it doesnt help, just upload the deck and let me check it with my own Anki settings wink

Last edited by Garland (2008 August 06, 3:47 pm)

cescoz Member
From: Italy Registered: 2008-01-22 Posts: 131

Thx! It's big...more than 7mega...uploaded on mediafire.
This is the link
http://www.mediafire.com/?f1umynrytbm

alyks Member
From: Arizona Registered: 2008-05-31 Posts: 914 Website

I opened your deck in an SQL browser. It says you deleted all the cards. If you really want to get it back, the cards still exist in a table called "cardsDeleted". You also should have posted it in the anki google group, where the Damien could help you more.

Though, I don't know if you could get your progress back.

Last edited by alyks (2008 August 06, 4:48 pm)

cescoz Member
From: Italy Registered: 2008-01-22 Posts: 131

Lucky!
On the pen drive I've found a recent version of the deck that I utilized with the portable pc!Its of 1 week ago,so is savable!
However,thanks Garland

Garland Member
From: Prague, Czech Republic Registered: 2008-02-17 Posts: 40

Phew smile

Good thing you found it, because after it didn't work to me either, I was about to take some very drastic "measures" smile

Garland Member
From: Prague, Czech Republic Registered: 2008-02-17 Posts: 40

Appareantly, I couldn't even change the file by direct editing, because the file uses a different coding, so manual typing won't work unless using some converter I do not know about *-*

Reply #10 - 2008 August 06, 5:21 pm
alyks Member
From: Arizona Registered: 2008-05-31 Posts: 914 Website

Garland, it's an SQL database. You have to manipulate the data using SQL commands.

Reply #11 - 2008 August 06, 5:34 pm
Garland Member
From: Prague, Czech Republic Registered: 2008-02-17 Posts: 40

smile The post made me feel like an idiot, which appearently isn't so far from reality

I used plain txt files for my c++ examination program (written before I found out about Anki and SRS in general) because database seemed like an overkill for the limited amout of words I was storing. It thus didn't come to mind, so thanks for pointing it out.

Reply #12 - 2008 August 06, 9:41 pm
resolve Member
From: 山口 Registered: 2007-05-29 Posts: 919 Website

Anki keeps automatic backups every time you open it. You should be able to find a copy before you deleted the cards in the deck.

(Please post questions like this on the Anki forum in the future)

Reply #13 - 2008 August 06, 9:45 pm
mentat_kgs Member
From: Brasil Registered: 2008-04-18 Posts: 1671 Website

With recent databases such as sqlite, they arent overkill anymore. I'm just posting to say I started using anki today. It have its quirks but its being a very nice experience.

Reply #14 - 2008 August 07, 3:41 am
cescoz Member
From: Italy Registered: 2008-01-22 Posts: 131

Thanks to all for the help

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