# Duplicate categories with hash after migration
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-categories-with-hash-after-migration/296143
**Category:** Migration
**Created:** [February 21, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-categories-with-hash-after-migration/296143 "2024-02-21T04:21:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Wilson\_Ho](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wilson_Ho)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-categories-with-hash-after-migration/296143/1 "2024-02-21T04:21:35Z")
Hi team,
I just found that staff, general, site feedback and uncategorized with hash categories appeared lately after migration. Don’t know if it is done on purpose.
Anyone have a clue?
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-categories-with-hash-after-migration/296143/2 "2024-02-21T04:36:32Z")
looks like this
> [@Random string in category name](https://meta.discourse.org/t/random-string-in-category-name/135020):
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> After setting up a fresh development environment recently, I’ve encountered a strange behaviour and was wondering if anyone knows what this is. I’m seeing a random string being appended to category names and tags: [24 AM]
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### Author:  [@Wilson\_Ho](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wilson_Ho)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2024, 6:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-categories-with-hash-after-migration/296143/3 "2024-02-21T06:18:53Z")
I see, let me run migration again and check, thanks 🙏