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Okay, so I'm working on deleting a category of products. I delete the category, it goes away, and all the products are left in the database. You cannot query them, however they're in the database. Why, when you delete a category does it not delete them from the database? I'm confused on this one...
Also, then I deleted another category, and now they're all gone. They've all disappeared. Now what... how do I get them back?

I guess, if you had a product linked to two categories and you deleted one of these you would not want to lose the products?
However, delete both and perhaps the products are no longer needed?

If you have two people deleting categories.. they all get deleted....this is a huge bug! All products still in database however, categories are gone.

you should try exporting your product list,
 
changing the assigned category numbers of those products
 
and then reimporting it

nevermind, just tried my own suggestion and they didn't appear in the exported list. (haven't checked the db)

Afaik this issue has been fixed in 3.4.7?

Thanks for informing us DickS
 

does that mean that when i delete a category the associated products will now also be deleted? - i hope not!