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Old Topic but suddenly became relevant to me because of legacy actions from previous admins here. I found the CLI listed from obrienw to be not compltely helpful because it seems to be missing some steps to a non CLI person trying to cleanly duplicate the instructions.
After muddling through some realities on the Fortigate and how its dependencies work in the GUI - Think Addresses or Services and how they are tied into Firewall Rules and Reference Quantities - I realized I needed to remove those references in the Web Filter profiles themselves before they could be deleted.
FortiOS 7.2.7
Go into each Web Filter Profile in your Fortigate and find the offending custom category in the middle of screen manipulation window - Right click on it - hit Disable. For whatever design reason choice from Fortinet they don't visually show this option - Feature request please if someone is paying attention...
Do this for each Web Filter Profile you have - I had 7... Once done go down the Gui Tree on the left side - Security Profiles - Web Rating Overrides. Along the bar in the manipulation window there should be +Create New, Edit, Delete, Status, "gears" Custom Categories - Click this last one. You should now see the custom categories group names. If the "Number of Web Filter Profile References" says zero then you should now be able to delete the Custom group. You can also edit names in here if you regret your initial name choice or someone put something here that doesn't make sense or changed with the times.
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