# 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:** [6. September 2017 um 14:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ive-somehow-lost-my-about-topic-for-a-category/69479 "2017-09-06T14:06:22Z")\
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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:** [6. September 2017 um 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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