# For hosted sites, newly added General category. How can one change all topics in one category to General category?

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**Created:** [August 30, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/for-hosted-sites-newly-added-general-category-how-can-one-change-all-topics-in-one-category-to-general-category/237563 "2022-08-30T09:18:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 9:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/for-hosted-sites-newly-added-general-category-how-can-one-change-all-topics-in-one-category-to-general-category/237563/2 "2022-08-30T09:55:33Z")

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> [@EricGT](#):
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> The category [General](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/c/general/32) was automatically added (08/30/2022). No staff member created it.

Hi!

I can’t help you with this but I’m curious.  
Can you go to your admin panel → Logs → Staff Actions → filter “Action: create category” and see which user created the category (if it was automated, it should be “system”) and when?

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