# General dissapear when uncategorized

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-dissapear-when-uncategorized/57592>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2017 年 2 月 18 日午後 2:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-dissapear-when-uncategorized/57592 "2017-02-18T14:19:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [2017 年 2 月 18 日午後 6:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-dissapear-when-uncategorized/57592/4 "2017-02-18T18:56:41Z")

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> [@zbor](#):
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> How now I set that creating new topic has that General category by default instead a selecting category?

I don’t think there is a way to do that. The only way to do that was to leave Uncategorized enabled and rename it to General (like you had before). But when you get rid of Uncategorized altogether, you must select a category when creating a topic.

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