Importing/exporting fails due to timestamps in the future
Some shared decks include cards/notes with invalidate creation dates, eg they say cards were created in the year 40000 instead of the year 2023. This causes a variety of problems, and causes any cards created after importing such a deck to end up with similarly-invalid timestamps.
To prevent this problem spreading, recent Anki versions will refuse to import or export decks that have invalid dates. In an ideal world Anki would fix the problem automatically for you, but doing so breaks the connection between cards, preventing updates from working when importing again in the future. For this reason, this is an issue that shared deck authors should ideally address.
When exporting
If you receive this message when exporting, please install the following add-on:
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/196231552
After restarting Anki (and waiting a while if loading is slow), the problem should be fixed, and you should be able to export the deck.
When importing
Please try contacting the deck author to notify them of the problem, and point them to this page. If they use the add-on mentioned in the above section and export the deck again, it will be importable.
If the deck author is not responsive, you can try to fix the problem yourself. To do so, you'll need access to a computer - this can not be resolved with the mobile clients.
- Ensure you're on Anki 2.1.60+.
- Go into the Preferences screen, and in the Editing section, enable legacy import/export handling.
- Import the deck(s).
- Return to the preferences, and disable legacy handling again.
- Follow the instructions in the 'when exporting' section above to fix the problematic cards you've imported.