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void glen Oct 30, 2025, 12:24 PM

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So...?

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I believe the problem is within this one?

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Card template 3 in note type 'Basic (and reversed card)' has a problem.<br>The front side is identic

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...identical to card template 1

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I checked are there any problems to a card's data itself I added while this problem existed.

The data seemed just fine within the Preview window.

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Other card types don't pop up errors like this.

pale heart Oct 30, 2025, 1:25 PM

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It's telling you exactly what the problem is. You have three card templates, and the front of card 3 is exactly identical to the front of card 1. So you'd end up with two identical cards, but with different histories. There's no good reason to do that. Probably the card 3 you accidentally created and can be deleted, but if you do want it, then you'll need to differentiate it from the other in some way.

void glen Oct 30, 2025, 1:26 PM

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Let's see

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pale heart Oct 30, 2025, 1:26 PM

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Yes

void glen Oct 30, 2025, 1:27 PM

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I hope I did it correctly and didn't delete cards that had data 😅

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I also don't know how it ended up having an extra type

pale heart Oct 30, 2025, 1:28 PM

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If you choose "Add card type" it duplicates whatever card type you're looking at (to use as a starting point). Maybe you did that?

void glen Oct 30, 2025, 1:28 PM

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Can be

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But there's no error anymore, and I can freeze fields normally again.

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Thanks!

red lagoon Oct 30, 2025, 3:50 PM

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void glen I hope I did it correctly and didn't delete cards that had data 😅

Usually you can't even save the card type if it's an identical duplicate, so I'm not sure how you got as far as you did ...

I hope I did it correctly and didn't delete cards that had data

The easy way to check for that is to search for the cards before you delete them -- "note:Basic (and reversed card)" card:3 to see those cards and then add -is:new to see if you've studied any of them.

Since it's too late now, if you want to check for peace-of-mind, you can import one of your backups into a separate (temporary) profile and search there.
https://faqs.ankiweb.net/restoring-an-automatic-backup-recovering-from-data-loss.html
https://docs.ankiweb.net/profiles.html

#Identical card types