First of all, when you want delete assets in your catalog, locate them in the Search tab, or if they are orphans, in the Catalog Orphans view of the Browse tab. Note that you cannot delete assets from the Catalog view of the Browse tab.
What happens to child assets when their parent is deleted depends on the types of assets involved:
Deleting a catalog folder containing a child folder moves the child folder to the top-level of the catalog hierarchy.
In all other circumstances, the child assets are turned into orphans, retaining their hierarchal relationships to each other.
Consider a situation in which you want to delete the Entertainment Category, which exists in the following hierarchy in Catalog view:
Entertainment Category
TV Category
HDTVs Product
Generic TV Brand 23" Widescreen SKU
Using the Search tab, you locate the Entertainment Category and delete it. This action turns TV Category into an orphan and removes the TV Category, HDTVs Product and Generic TV Brand 23” Widescreen SKU from Catalog view; you need to open Catalog Orphans view to see the TV Category and the assets nested in it. In that view, you can delete the remaining assets or provide a new parent to TV Category, which moves all assets back into the catalog and makes them visible again in Catalog view.
