# Problem switching parent categories?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-switching-parent-categories/83036
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-switching-parent-categories/83036 "2018-03-15T04:52:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jonobacon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jonobacon)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-switching-parent-categories/83036/1 "2018-03-15T04:52:02Z")
Hi All,
Experiencing a strange issue. This is for a client, so I have to be a little generic. Current Discourse version is [v2.0.0.beta4 +87](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/compare/6f40037ba551e6e495e6f51263940b574721e66a...tests-passed)
I have a number of parent categories such as A, B, C, D, and E.
For category C I have about 8 subcategories. I want to change their parent to be A, so I go into the category settings. When I click the parent category box, I can see all the parent categories other than A.
Any idea why one of my categories may be missing in the parent categories box?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-switching-parent-categories/83036/2 "2018-03-15T06:08:55Z")
Did you rename Uncategorised? (Could be unrelated but it’s a bit hard to troubleshoot as you noted so I’ll throw [ideas] at the wall).
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### Author:  [@jonobacon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jonobacon)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-switching-parent-categories/83036/3 "2018-03-15T14:29:04Z")
> [@HAWK](#):
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> Did you rename Uncategorised? (Could be unrelated but it’s a bit hard to troubleshoot as you noted so I’ll throw [ideas] at the wall).
You know what, I think I did.
If I renamed it does that mean it can’t have sub-categories?
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-switching-parent-categories/83036/4 "2018-03-15T15:41:50Z")
> [@jonobacon](#):
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> If I renamed it does that mean it can’t have sub-categories?
Nope, Uncategorized is not a real category and does not behave like a normal category.
Rename the Uncategorized(A) to something else
Create a new category A and then you can change the parent from C to the new A.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-switching-parent-categories/83036/7 "2024-06-08T12:37:41Z")
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