# Regenerate category description / About topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/regenerate-category-description-about-topic/81261
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 22, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regenerate-category-description-about-topic/81261 "2018-02-22T22:24:58Z")
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### Author:  [@a\_lee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/a_lee)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regenerate-category-description-about-topic/81261/1 "2018-02-22T22:24:58Z")
I accidentally deleted several category About topics while attempting to do some data cleaning (via a careless `Topic.where(category_id: ).destroy_all` where I forgot to exclude the about topic). Is there a way to regenerate these specially pinned topics from the rails console?
Alternatively I guess I could try creating new categories and copying topics over and then deleting the old categories..
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regenerate-category-description-about-topic/81261/2 "2018-02-23T16:57:44Z")
How long ago did you delete them? You could look through the list of deleted topics to try and find and undelete it. It _should_ still have its special properties. If not, a new category is likely easiest. I’ve used that method before. Rename the “old” category and slug temporarily, create the new category using the previous name/slug, move all topics, then delete the old category.
To view deleted topics, go to `your.forum.com/latest?status=deleted`
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### Author:  [@a\_lee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/a_lee)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regenerate-category-description-about-topic/81261/3 "2018-02-23T18:51:14Z")
Must have been too long, so I went the new category route - thanks for confirming!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regenerate-category-description-about-topic/81261/4 "2018-09-11T21:54:16Z")
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