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File directory doesn't parse correctly in Seg2Cat

File paths are only parsed in the Category Image field, not in the Category Description field, and only if the Parse File Paths setting is set to Yes.
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Renegade Category Defies LowSeg2Cat

You have stumbled upon one of the classics in debugging ExpressionEngine. A still common gotcha that even seasoned veterans get bitten by every now and then. A property that makes us wonder: why is ...
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LowSeg2Cat and Transcribe not working together

This is as designed. Low Seg2Cat creates its own instance of EE's URI class, because add-ons like Transcribe (and specifically Structure) tend to rewrite the original URI instance, which rewrites the ...
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Calendar and categories

According to the docs, using the pipe character will return results if entries belong to either category id. To return those that belong to both then use the & symbol instead of the | character. ...
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LowSeg2Cat and Transcribe not working together

I appreciate response of @Low. Thank you sir. As I have many pages where I cannot use {last_segment_category_id} or {segment_[n+1]_category_id}. I needed some quick hack in LowSeg2Cat extension to ...
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{segment_category_ids_piped} only returning one cat id

If you have multiple categories with the same URL title, then this caveat applies: If there are multiple categories with the same url_title, but in different groups, this extension will only return ...
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Trying to get category name from url

As Mufi correctly commented, Low Seg2Cat uses category URL titles, not category IDs.
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Calendar and categories

As stuartmcd69 says, what you need to do is use the & character instead of |. However, the current version of Calendar (2.2.3) has a bug where this does NOT work. We're close to releasing a 2.3.0 ...
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Low Seg to cat (if category not found)

You can conditionally check your segment variables from the extension: {if segment_2_category_name} This category exists. {exp:channel:entries category="{segment_2_category_id}"} ......
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Low Seg2Cat and MixItUp

In short: no. Low Seg2Cat looks at full segments, which in your example is order#cakes, not order, nor cakes. Your better bet is to, rather than use a hash in your URL to indicate a filter, simply ...
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Categories not filtering with Low Seg2Cat

Your code should look like this (note the end of the opening channel:entries tag - you were missing a combination of quotes and curly braces): {exp:channel:entries channel="specials" orderby="date" ...
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