Problem with "Uses Primary Store Category"

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I recently did something foolish to my Store Category tree, which is irritating but not a huge problem. But when I added subcategories on eBay, then loaded the new category tree in GarageSale too quickly, items that were in the old root category now have no Store Category selected.

I thought maybe I could simply build a Smart Folder to search for things that were broken in this way, but no! Apparently the listings where this happened do have a Store Category set, it’s just not a valid one by number (not a leaf of the new tree). And I also cannot search for listings with the old Store Category set, because the Smart Folder filter Primary Store Category is… won’t show something that isn’t on the tree either.

Finally, I notice that there’s no way to simply sort the general database view by Store Category #1/#2 and see it, because for some reason the broken listings are not showing as empty and (to be honest) I don’t know the name of the old categories no longer present.

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The one thing I found just now is that when I sort the listing view by Store Category #1/#2, the old category names do appear in the column. I just need to manually make a list of those which are no longer allowed in my new scheme, and find them carefully.

So maybe a point of action might be: Since we can’t select a non-leaf store category in any other interface, could GS be modified to flag, or perhaps display nothing (or remove the assigned store category) in the general view, if the assigned value turns out to not be a leaf?