# Archive categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/archive-categories/26319>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 14, 2015, 9:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archive-categories/26319 "2015-03-14T09:04:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archive-categories/26319/7 "2022-05-11T21:01:20Z")

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One should be aware that bulk actions on topics can be used in a category to archive all topics at once, reducing the required work to archive a category. Then the procedure would be:

For each (sub-)category: select all topics, archive them, then edit the category security settings and reduce all to read.

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