I’m getting pretty frustrated and have been thinking about resetting lately in order to avoid having to deal with all the high levels and their impossible-to-remember rare kanji that don’t matter anyway. However, the description of resetting says that it will delete your data, which I don’t want to do.
Is there any way to reset while still preserving your historical review data?
Responses from people who have worked with the WK api for reset accounts would be especially helpful (@rfindley ). It’s unclear to me from the API docs whether resetting actually deletes review data or not.
Well, you can do a backup of your own data but it will be removed from WK’s database. I know, I checked after resetting. I downloaded all of the stats before resetting though. But you can’t load it back into WK.
Essentially, all of the state for your lessons and item stats will be reset for everything >= level you reset to.
Good to know!
So, @l_l , it looks like your past review data will be not be deleted… though it won’t be visible anywhere but via the API and any scripts that use that particular subset of data.
I went ahead and reset, and so far, my old review data appears to still be available in the API. So I guess that settles that. It’s a shame the documentation is so confusing.
