Something's weird with my reports- categories not reporting properly

I noticed today in my sales report that a few items are showing "uncategorized" but when I go further into each individual item, they are, in fact, categorized. 

 

Anyone else having issues with categories reporting properly? 

 

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None of the categories are selected as the "reporting category" which is what is missing. 

Although it doesn't fix it for past sales either fyi. Only future. 

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@IndoorFins is correct, if you delete a reporting category and do not replace it, no new reporting category is auto selected - I considered it a bug but was told that is expected behaviour

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Yeah, @JTPets "expected" or no, its not particularly good behavior. I encountered it because I was reworking my categories. I wish at least there was a way to filter BY reporting category. Having the filters apply to all applied categories makes it impossible to find who is missing a reporting category or in the wrong one.

Right now I've been finding missing ones slowly, but I think I really need to export my library (all ~1000skus) and do a reporting category check/clean up. I just dislike doing that because I learned the hard way that it's easy to accidentally scramble your prices if you select wrong on a sort function. 

But in the meantime I have fun issues like my Pearl Gourami (a freshwater fish) selling and applying over an over $100 sale to "Marine Fish" as a category. (Honestly I don't know how I accidentally put them in that category at all, but that could well be human error). And just yesterday I found all my actual marine fish were without a reporting category. 

@DinaLRosenberg Basically I learned this the hard way and it's not unreasonable you didn't notice!

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