When you delete a parent asset, such as a category that contains products, the child assets move to the Uncategorized or Unsited Items list, retaining their hierarchical relationships to each other. The only exception is deleting a catalog folder that contains another catalog folder; in this case, the child folder moves to the root level of the catalog. See Uncategorized and Unsited Items for more information.

When you delete a linked asset, the asset is removed from all parents. See Linking and Unlinking Assets for more information.