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Ari

12 Oct, 2014 12:36 AM

I am using a fantastic deck called "RTK 6th Edition [Stories, Stroke Diagrams, Readings]". It has 2200 cards and I am a bit overwhelmed by it. I would like to split this deck into 5 subdecks which correspond to how the kanji are used on the JLPT. This page:

http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=2760

Has those lists. The lists either identify the kanji by its frame number (called "sort field") in the deck, or just list the kanji.

I spent some time in the "browse" screen trying to highlight a subset of the kanji, and creating a new deck from them, but could not figure it out. Can someone help me?

Thanks.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Damien Elmes on 12 Oct, 2014 01:26 AM

   

   We were recently contacted by the author of RTK asking us to remove that deck from the shared deck listing, so please remove the stories field to avoid violating his copyright. As for your question, once you've selected a group of cards, you can use the change deck button at the top of the screen to move them into a new deck.

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2. 2 Posted by Ari on 12 Oct, 2014 02:32 AM

   

   Thank you for alerting me about the copyright issue - I have deleted the field. I still am not sure how to select multiple cards. For example, to select all the N5 kanji I would write the follwing in SQL:

   SELECT *
   FROM deck
   WHERE id IN (1, 2, 3, 11, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 37, 38, 39, 40, 49, 50, 15, 57, 64, 76, 77, 78, 95, 98, 101, 105, 107, 109, 111, 112, 127, 130, 150, 158, 45, 159, 161, 195, 211, 245, 248, 255, 269, 286, 83, 290, 307, 324, 327, 335, 41, 344, 17, 347, 323, 319, 348, 422, 428, 444, 445, 458, 504, 534, 71, 535, 568, 256, 581, 696, 704, 767, 768, 779, 14, 858, 859, 951, 91, 873, 965, 93, 1012, 1036, 1202, 1274, 1275, 1278, 1379, 1468, 1472, 1555, 1587, 1602, 1613, 1616, 1620, 818, 1626, 1811, 216, 1884, 1885, 396, 1920)

   I have tried various permutations of this in the browser search field ("deck:current id in (...)") but I can't seem to get it to work.

   2. Regarding the "change deck" button - is it possible to copy/clone the selected cards, and not remove them? I would like to avoid messing up my existing deck with this experiment.

   Thank you for your fast reply!

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3. 3 Posted by Ari on 12 Oct, 2014 04:31 AM

   

   Update: I wrote a script to take the kanji lists and create a query that gives me the cards that I want in the correct anki browser syntax, e.g.:

   deck:current (kanji:一 or kanji:二)

   And I see the "change deck" button that you suggested. But I am still a bit stumped as to whether the only way to get these cards into a new deck is to remove them from the current deck. Is there no equivalent of

   INSERT INTO new_deck
   SELECT * FROM current_deck WHERE kanji IN (a,b,c)

   or an equivalent of copy and paste?

   Barring these options, is there a way to make a backup of my current deck, then slice it and dice it into the subdecks that I want (thereby effectively deleting it), and then overwriting it with my backup?

   Thanks.

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Damien Elmes on 12 Oct, 2014 06:24 AM

   

   You can File>Export all decks to create a backup that you can recover later. It's not possible to create duplicates of cards, since that would double your review obligations.

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5. 5 Posted by Ari on 12 Oct, 2014 03:58 PM

   

   Damien,

   Can I re-share the deck on ankiweb with the Heisig stories removed?

   Thanks.

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6. Support Staff 6 Posted by Damien Elmes on 13 Oct, 2014 12:57 AM

   

   I can't answer for James, so please contact him and obtain permission before uploading anything: heisig at nanzan-u.ac.jp

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Soren Bjornstad on 26 Oct, 2014 12:09 AM

   

   This ticket has been automatically closed due to inactivity. If you are still having issues or need to continue this discussion, please feel free to reply.
   
   If you are not the original poster but are experiencing a similar issue, please create a new thread and include a link to this one if appropriate.

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8. Soren Bjornstad closed this discussion on 26 Oct, 2014 12:09 AM.