Moving multiple categories at once

[Joint Systems]

We need to move more than 100 categories to a new root category and there doesn't appear to be a bulk action selection to do that, only enable and disable?   The only method we could find is the mass edit tool in MyPHPAdmin.  The same thing with products.  We ended up with some 100 products in the home directory amd had to move them.  Since there is no move function that we could find we tried using phpmyadmin to move the products from home to the other directory but had no effect.  The only way we could find was to edit the association in each product one by one, or copy the section in the products and  create a new csv with nothing but the id, name and correct category then  import to move them to the correct category, which took about 5 min.

Edited January 2, 2021 by Joint Systems
Update

[Wartin]

4 hours ago, Joint Systems said:

We need to move more than 100 categories to a new root category and there doesn't appear to be a bulk action selection to do that, only enable and disable?   The only method we could find is the mass edit tool in MyPHPAdmin.

You should use the excellent tool called prestools. It's installed under your admin folder and you can do a lot of bulk stuff.