I’m having issues deleting a few categories.
I’ve moved all topics associated with these categories (except the About this category topic) to other categories. I tried moving the replies to the “About this category” topic to another topic. I can’t seem to move these topics (about this category topic) to another category. When I try to delete the category I get a 500 error at the top of the category edit window. What am I missing?
Hello!
Your issue sounds similar to the one below:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-a-category-because-of-about-category-topic/84310
Thanks @Thomas_G. Very similar though not sure if she was getting the 500 error. It looks like that specific thread never got solved, and the one that got split off doesn’t apply. I never turned any of the replies or topics into PMs.
Are you trying to delete the Uncategorized category?
Nope, not trying to delete the Uncategorized category. I turned that off in the Settings. These are other categories we created when we first launched our community that we decided to deprecate during a restructure initiative.
Hi, I have identified the issue, this should be solved in the next 12 hours, I’m assigning this to a specific team member who has been working on it.
Hi Heather,
I’m deploying a fix for this to your forum, once it’s live I’ll let you know and you should be able to delete the category.
Hi Heather,
Your site has the latest updates now, please let me know if this category delete still doesn’t work.
Yes, I was able to delete those categories! Thank you 
