How to Transfer Theme

[goodkel]

Forum URL: weightlosssurgery.proboards.com/

This is the working board that I just updated to V5.

I need to transfer/upload the theme from my V5 test board:

wlstest2.proboards.com/

I tried to copy it, no go.

With some difficulty I saved it to my hard drive as a .pbt file.
When I attempted to upload it, I receive this error message:

Error
Theme contains invalid data. Unable to decode theme data.

What do I do now?

Thank you for your help!
Kelly

[David Clark]

Hey goodkel, would you be able to upload the .pbt file in question as an attachment in this thread? We can take a look and see if everything's OK.

[goodkel]

Done! Thank you! I'm sure the problem is something I am doing. Michael Stone, admin extraordinaire, put it together for me.

Attachments:

settings.pbt (182.84 KB)

[David Clark]

Thanks for providing that, goodkel. I'm having the same trouble importing it that you did.

Just to be sure, are you trying to export the theme labeled "Default" from your test forum? You mentioned managing to export it with "some difficulty" - can you expand on that for me?

[goodkel]

Jan 2, 2014 16:22:43 GMT -8 David Clark said:

Thanks for providing that, goodkel. I'm having the same trouble importing it that you did.

Just to be sure, are you trying to export the theme labeled "Default" from your test forum? You mentioned managing to export it with "some difficulty" - can you expand on that for me?

I didn't "export" it. I pressed control then clicked to save the file. Then I saved it with the .pbt extension. Yes it is the default theme on the test forum.

[goodkel]

I couldn't tell you how, but I kept futzing around with it, found the export area and downloaded a fresh copy. Uploaded that and it worked!
I am so grateful for the assistance I have received. Thank you all SO much!

[David Clark]

Glad you got that figured out, goodkel. You'll definitely want to use the export tool to get those .pbt files, as it sounds like you might have downloaded an HTML file and changed the extension of it instead of downloading the theme itself.

For future reference, you can export themes by going to Admin > Themes > Theme Manager > Click a theme > Export tab. There you'll be guided through the instructions for exporting to your computer.