Disable A Category And Not Its Products

Hi, I created a GIFTS FOR DAD category for father's day, and added products to it by linking to the category from existing products. I thought it would be simple to just disable the category, and enable it again next year, but in doing so, it also disables on the products in it, even though the products are linked to it and all have a different master category.

Is there a way to hide the category, but not disable the products? I don't want to have to go and unlink product by product. Is there a better way?

Thanks!
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Disable the Category then go in to the Disabled category and enable the Products ...

Or, if too many ... you could use in the Tools ... Insert SQL Patches ...

UPDATE categories SET categories_status = 0 where categories_id = XX;

where XX is the categories_id to disable ...