# Wanneer we een categorie verwijderen, wat gebeurt er dan met de verwijderde onderwerpen erin?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-we-delete-a-category-what-happens-to-the-deleted-topics-in-it/171131
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [24 november 2020 om 08:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-we-delete-a-category-what-happens-to-the-deleted-topics-in-it/171131 "2020-11-24T08:47:32Z")
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### Author: ![Johani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johani/32/176920_2.png) [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [24 november 2020 om 08:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-we-delete-a-category-what-happens-to-the-deleted-topics-in-it/171131/2 "2020-11-24T08:51:11Z")

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You can’t delete a category while it has topics. You’ll see something like this.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/5/852356785a8cd6de20cf48c63b160defb831f7d6.png)

You’ll have to either recategorize the topics or delete them before you can delete the category.

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