# Cannot delete system created topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-system-created-topic/125781>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [8월 14, 2019, 2:26오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-system-created-topic/125781 "2019-08-14T14:26:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Kogan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joshua_kogan/32/127595_2.png) [@Joshua\_Kogan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Joshua_Kogan)\
**Post date:** [8월 26, 2019, 10:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-system-created-topic/125781/16 "2019-08-26T10:05:08Z")

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> [@davidkingham](#):
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> That returned `nil` unfortunately

This also returned nil for me.

> [@davidkingham](#):
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> Category.find\_by(name: ‘Gear’).update(topic\_count: 0)

This returned ‘true’, but did not change the -1 values in the reply column of my topics. I also still could not destroy the category.

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