# I've somehow lost my 'About' topic for a category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2017年九月6日 14:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479 "2017-09-06T14:06:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![Richie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richie/32/115110_2.png) [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [2017年九月6日 14:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479/1 "2017-09-06T14:06:22Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’ve somehow lost (possibly deleted) my “About the _Category Name_” topic.

Strangely enough, on the homepage of the forums, the description that I set is still showing under the category heading name, so it must be around somewhere!

Any pointers on how to find it??

I tried a normal search for some of the keywords - no trace 😮

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2017年九月6日 14:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479/2 "2017-09-06T14:11:53Z")

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Edit the category and click the Edit Description button in the modal 😉

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### Author: ![Richie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richie/32/115110_2.png) [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [2017年九月6日 14:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479/3 "2017-09-06T14:14:28Z")

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Thanks for the quick reply!

Worryingly, that Edit Description button isn’t there 😕 (it is on all the other categories!)

 ![mia](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/5/65e75234412dc39446af6e423dc820a59d8daf77.jpg)

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2017年九月6日 14:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479/4 "2017-09-06T14:37:24Z")

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I think you’ll have to use the rails console for that one.

```
# ssh into server
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
rails c
Category.pluck(:name, :topic_id)

```

You will get back a list of category names and their associated `topic_id`.

If the one you’re looking for is “`nil`”, you could try that in the rails console

```
Topic.unscoped.where("title ILIKE 'About %'").pluck(:title, :id)

```

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2017年九月6日 15:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479/5 "2017-09-06T15:54:23Z")

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> [@zogstrip](#):
>
> I think you’ll have to use the rails console for that one.

What happened that there’s no about? Is this a renamed “untitled” or something like that?

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2019年九月20日 03:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479/6 "2019-09-20T03:54:33Z")

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2023年五月6日 00:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479/7 "2023-05-06T00:23:07Z")

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [2023年五月6日 01:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479/8 "2023-05-06T01:32:41Z")

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