Hi all,
I just wanted to update my main vocabulary stack for the first time and chose the option "replace all cards (stats are maintained if text is identical)" (the phrasing may not be a 100% identical because I'm using the German version of the app). My main stack is relatively big (5500 cards) and I only had around 300 new cards, so I reckoned 97% of the cards would be kept and the 3% that were new would be added.
After processing the updated CSV, however, the app told me that "no cards were replaced because there was no matching text". I was a bit surprised because the two versions were simple CSV files with no changes in encoding or structure. Even the first 100 lines were fully identical, the first new word appeared further below. Both versions were alphabetically sorted so the new words were interspersed among the old. First I thought "well, at least I have my old cards with the old stats". But then I found out with horror that while the app had not touched the existing 5500, it had nevertheless set back all the stats (so far around 4000 card views).
Has anybody else experienced this problem? Did I somehow misunderstand the replacement mode and this is normal behavior? And can similar stuff happen in the append mode, too (I thought I'd better use that one next time)?
Robert