Bug/issue

[Ed]

Hi Peter,

I'm here to report an issue with the latest version of Mnemosyne. I'm using Win 7 64-bit.

I know there is a proper place to report a suspected bug but I don't want to set up a new Ubuntu One account in order to do so - that's just annoying (I've already had to set up a Gmail account just to post on the Mnemosyne user community board).

Anyway, the issue is that the program is sometimes showing the answers as the top card instead of the questions. I'm using question and answer to test myself on vocabulary. I'm not using the special vocabulary feature though.

Also, these answers before questions appear when you select the option "Browse cards".

I have made the database from a tab-separated text file which strictly has the source words first (i.e. the German word, then a tab, then the English word answer).

Thanks for your feedback :) Ed

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

My guess is that you've converted these cards to 'Front-to-back and back-to-front' or 'Vocabulary' card types.

Have at look at the documentation on our website, especially http://mnemosyne-proj.org/help/card-types

Good luck!

Peter

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[Ed]

On Saturday, 13 September 2014 16:39:23 UTC+1, Peter Bienstman wrote:

Hi,

My guess is that you've converted these cards to 'Front-to-back and back-to-front' or 'Vocabulary' card types.

Have at look at the documentation on our website, especially http://mnemosyne-proj.org/help/card-types

Good luck!

Peter

Thanks, I'll try to figure out what I'm doing wrong based on your feedback and that link. It's only about 5-10% or so of the cards that are doing this, so I'm not convinced it's an actual feature of the program. 

It's a particular problem now as I have loaded some cards which feature a wrong spelling and a right one, and it is sometimes showing me the right spellings first, and if I haven't learnt the answer already, this totally throws me and makes the learning process impossible. Based on this set, I have a new feature request, which I'll make in a separate thread :)

[Ed]

Update:

So I re-made the database by overwriting over the old one and then imported a text file with 84 entries, which should equal 84 cards, right?

Mnemosyne immediately made those 84 cards into 134 cards for some reason. It has decided 31 are "front-to-back only" and 106 are "vocabulary".

Why has it created more cards? How and why has it decided on this apparently arbitrary difference between front-to-back and vocabulary? These cards come from a list where all the items are entered in an identical way.

Anyway, I have discovered if I deselect (under Deactivate cards) the 53 cards it has labelled as "Production" I get the 84 original cards again (31 front-to-back and 53 Recognition).

Now I will go check in my other deck whether back-to-front cards exist, and deactivate those. But I would like an explanation for why the program is apparently arbitrarily creating card types that it shouldn't be.

It seems to me Mnemosyne is needlessly complicated. I find it a lot more user-friendly than Anki but some things are still not obvious or explained as clearly as they might be.

Thanks, Ed

[Ed]

Update #2:


So I've learned under "Browse Cards" how to select only the cards you want to change (i.e. the ones that have the erroneous assignment), then do "Change card type". That gets around the problem I was having before with the arbitrary assignment of card types.

But in an ideal world this step shouldn't be necessary.

I think I'm finally getting to grips with this program. Maybe it's a sign the documentation isn't as good as it needs to be - I'm usually the software wiz in my family...