Title: Bug: Theme Update
Last modified: October 10, 2024

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# Bug: Theme Update

 *  Resolved [ahhhaweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahhhaweb/)
 * (@ahhhaweb)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-theme-update/)
 * After recently installing OceanWP, a notice appeared in the WordPress themes 
   dashboard that an update was available. I clicked on the Update Now message the
   update process began but ended with an error that the oceanwp archive could not
   be created ( I suspect a directory’s write permissions were not configured properly)
   at that point the site began to show a down for maintenance error followed by
   an Oceanwp stylesheet not found error. 
   The sequencing of events in the upgrade
   routine may need attention as it appears that the existing OceanWP theme was 
   deleted before the archive was written and the update installed. In otherwords,
   it appears that the sequencing is 1. copy and delete existing theme version2.
   write existing theme to archive3. install new versionan error at step 2 is catastrophic
   as the theme is completely gone.

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 *  Thread Starter [ahhhaweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahhhaweb/)
 * (@ahhhaweb)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-theme-update/#post-18066139)
 * Deleting the “maintenance” file from the root director and reinstalling the theme
   cleared up the issue.
 *  [Shahin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skalanter/)
 * (@skalanter)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-theme-update/#post-18067296)
 * Hello [@ahhhaweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahhhaweb/),
 * Thank you for reaching out,
 * I’m glad that you were able to resolve that.
 * Best Regards

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Shahin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skalanter/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-theme-update/#post-18067296)
 * Status: resolved