@lulietbakery My apologies. I do not know where by brain was when I posted that initial reply earlier today. FYI, in order not to confuse anyone else (as I did you and myself!), I'm going to remove that post. Now, to your actual question....
Here is a link to a similar post here in the Community. While this post refers to permalinks at the product level, the same would apply to permalinks at the category level, too. Specifically, I refer you to the reply from @Summer2024. It seems that those added characters, etc, are something that is part of the URL. All you are changing for what you thought was a permalink was just the "slug" portion, to use Summer's words here. And, since I tagged Summer, hopefully she can and will weigh in with any further notes or clarifications.
Again, my apologies for answering a completely different question than the one you asked!
Chip A.
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