# Replacing Uncategorized category

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 5, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-uncategorized-category/377353 "2025-08-05T13:15:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-uncategorized-category/377353/1 "2025-08-05T13:15:59Z")

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I have been using the Uncategorized category with a different name for years. We called it `Share`.

Now I want to replace it with a default category so we can put subcategories in it and unclutter the top-level category space a bit.

So I tried to change the Uncategorized category name (`Misc`), and removed the permalink trying to send old links there, so I can create a new `Share` category and move everything from the new `Misc`to the new `Share`, including other categories.

But When I try to create a new category `Share` I receive `An error occurred: Category Name has already been taken`.

So I guess there is somewhere a name block on that word, which I’d like to ‘free’ so I can use it as intended. Do you know where to act?

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In the console:

```plaintext
Category.where(name:'Share')

```

gives the category with slug `misc`.

But I’m a bit worried about altering the name in the database directly.

`Category.where(user_id:-1)`

gives Staff and Share. I could try and rename : `Category.where(name:’Share’).update(name: ‘Misc’, name_lower:’misc’)`(or something like this). Is it safe? Are there other places where I should take care of renaming?

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