Title: Lost categories
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Lost categories

 *  784620
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-categories-1/)
 * Last night I upgraded to 2.6 from 2.0.1. Everything works fine except for have
   lost all the categories. There must be a file that I deleted that contained the
   category listing. I would thing that it would be in the wp-content folder but
   I don’t see anything there. The old site is completely backed up so I have access
   to any file that I need. Anybody know how to get the category list back?
    Thanx

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 *  [rotarjen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rotarjen/)
 * (@rotarjen)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-categories-1/#post-820377)
 * Same problem just happened to me – did you get any help?
 *  [procheinamy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/procheinamy/)
 * (@procheinamy)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-categories-1/#post-820408)
 * I looked at other messages like this and they recommended doing a restore of 
   your database then upgrading it by increments.
 * I did not want to mess with that, plus didn’t feel like messing with my host,
   so I did what this said:
 * [http://blog.cumps.be/wordpress-26-upgrade-fix-missing-categories/](http://blog.cumps.be/wordpress-26-upgrade-fix-missing-categories/)

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 * Last reply from: [procheinamy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/procheinamy/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-categories-1/#post-820408)
 * Status: not resolved

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