# Trying to move a category but getting "You can't nest a subcategory under another." error

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**Created:** [September 18, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-move-a-category-but-getting-you-cant-nest-a-subcategory-under-another-error/164476 "2020-09-18T17:37:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-move-a-category-but-getting-you-cant-nest-a-subcategory-under-another-error/164476/1 "2020-09-18T17:37:11Z")

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I have a category (itself with 4 subcategories) that I had at the root, but I want to move under an existing root category. When I try to update the Parent Category, I’m seeing the following error:

You can’t nest a subcategory under another.

I thought I would be able to move things around any time, but maybe there’s another way I should be doing this?

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