Does anyone know why I keep getting this error message when I try and edit more than about 60 topics at once. ‘‘Sorry, an error has occurred.’’ The only workaround is to edit a small number of topics at once - about 30. [11]

Thank you for your feedback @simon . I managed to delete the whole category successfully using ‘‘rake destroy:categories[…]’’

It is a very expensive operation so it is timing out.

Thank you for the feedback, but is there a way to fix it?

Select less topics at once. I’d suggest keeping it to a about 50 per batch. If you need to bulk edit a very large number of topics, use of the rails console will be necessary. See Administrative Bulk Operations

Then using the rails console is the best solution here. See the link above for bulk operations.

I can’t see an option to bulk delete all topics in a category?

The guide to delete all topics in a category is linked in the Destructive rake tasks section of the guide. [image] Bulk delete all topics in a category Self-Hosting bookmark This guide provides instructions on how to bulk delete all topics within a category on…

Right, I’m getting somewhere. I have successfully bulk removed all topics in a category, but it’s not letting me delete the entire category now because it’s saying: ‘‘Can’t delete this category because topic count is 1.’’ As far as I can see, there are no topics. Any ideas? [23]

That’s odd. In that case, try deleting the category from the console. See Delete entire categories in the Bulk Operations topic for details.

A quick follow up @christian_01 . In the future, please ask for help with what your real issue is - in this case deleting a category with topics in it - rather than what you’re trying to do to solve the issue. From what I gather, your ultimate goal is deleting a category with lots of topics in it. H…

Error Message when editing large number of topics

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christian_01 (Christian) November 1, 2019, 3:54pm 5

I have thousands of topics in a category!

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Error Message when editing large number of topics

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