# Edit link to replied-to post after move
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-link-to-replied-to-post-after-move/108888
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [12.Февраль.2019 00:22:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-link-to-replied-to-post-after-move/108888 "2019-02-12T00:22:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@rawtaz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rawtaz)
#### Post date: [12.Февраль.2019 00:22:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-link-to-replied-to-post-after-move/108888/1 "2019-02-12T00:22:02Z")
I have kind of a situation here. In short, I had to move a reply that was made to a post in topic A, to another topic B. Then for various reasons it made sense to remove the post that was replied to, which had the URL of /t/14/18.
In topic B, the reply that I moved has an auto-generated link to the replied-to post (that no longer exists), and that link has the original URL of /t/14/18. If I hit that link or go to that URL I’m redirected to what seems to be the closest active post in topic A that has an ID as close as possible to the original replied-to ID 18. Before I removed a second post I was redirected to /t/14/17, but after removing that one I am not redirected to /t/14/19 instead.
This is where my problem happens - that post /t/14/19 makes no sense for the reply in topic B, and I would like to edit the link in that reply so it instead points to e.g. /t/14/16. But I can’t find a way to edit the link, as it’s an auto-generated one, presumably stored somewhere in the system.
Is there a way to fix this? Or if not, can I at least delete the auto-generated link so I can manually add a reference at the top of the reply post in topic B?
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### Author:  [@tanius](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tanius)
#### Post date: [29.Март.2019 21:17:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-link-to-replied-to-post-after-move/108888/2 "2019-03-29T21:17:04Z")
**Instructions:**
1. Go to the thread where the reply was posted originally before you moved it (“thread A” in your case).
2. Find the post that states you have split the topic and moved a post to another topic. It will say something like:
3. Edit that post and delete the link to thread B in it. This will remove the auto-generated link that had appeared in your thread B.
**Explanation:** these auto-generated links are like “backlink indicators” in WordPress: they point back to the topic that contains a link to the current topic. By removing that link as shown above, the auto-generated link also disappears automatically.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [31.Май.2022 10:13:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-link-to-replied-to-post-after-move/108888/4 "2022-05-31T10:13:56Z")