We are consolidating categories and contents in our Discourse instance at forum.netzwissen.de I moved all topics (including the description topic) into an internal “archive” category as admin, with bulk operations. But it is still impossible to delete the old categories, although they appear to be “empty” (message “Nothing to see here…check back soon!”). Any idea how to solve this?

What’s happening when you try to delete the category? Any error message? Any JS error in your browser’s console?

… no js errors at all. The “Danger zone” at…/c/[category-id/subcategory-id/edit/settings/ shows “Can’t delete this category because topic count is 13.” But there are no topics visible inside of this category. They have all been moved to a new sub-category below “Archiv” and are visible and accessible there. So we have a mismatch between the displayed topic count at the old location and the real situation where the topics are already re-located to a new location.

删除类别失败

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zogstrip (Régis HANOL) 2026 年8 月 4 日 06:59 2

在尝试删除类别时发生了什么？有任何错误消息吗？浏览器的控制台中是否有任何 JS 错误？

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