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I don't know if this is an Ubuntu question or a Drupal question but since it SEEMS OS-related I'll ask it here. Sorry if that's a mistake. Here's my question:

Summary of problem:

I've added a bootstrap sub-theme to my new Drupal 8 site and am in the process of changing the name of all the files to reflect my sub-themes name. I was able to change the .info.yml and libraries.yml files just fine but I get an error whenever I try to change the THEMENAME.theme file to match my sub-theme name. I tried this with multiple installations of Drupal 8.

Current permissions:

I have already given myself full permissions over the site directory to do whatever I want, using the following: sudo chmod ugo+wrx /var/www/drupal/ -Rf

I've also given the apache user ownership over the site directory, like so: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/sitename/*

This is the error I get:

Sorry, could not rename “THEMENAME.theme” to “new-subtheme-name.theme”: Unable to rename desktop file.

Thoughts on what might be going on here?

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  • See askubuntu.com/questions/65343/…
    – Slava Knyazev
    May 27, 2016 at 0:12
  • Thanks but restarting doesn't help and I've even re-installed the operating system and it still causes this problem and only on THIS file. I have no problems renaming other files on my OS, including other files in this same folder.
    – Sage
    May 27, 2016 at 0:16

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I had the same problem. As a workaround I created new-subtheme-name.theme, copied code from THEMENAME.theme over to the new file and deleted THEMENAME.theme.

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  • Thanks for the tip. It would still be good to know the reason for not being able to edit the original file though.
    – MrPaulDriver
    Apr 22, 2018 at 11:56

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