# Problem switching parent categories?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-switching-parent-categories/83036>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-switching-parent-categories/83036 "2018-03-15T04:52:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-switching-parent-categories/83036/1 "2018-03-15T04:52:02Z")

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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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