{"id":9030,"date":"2019-05-05T06:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T00:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2023-08-08T19:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:25:14","slug":"windows-cant-find-one-of-the-files-save-theme-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/windows-cant-find-one-of-the-files-save-theme-sync\/","title":{"rendered":"[Fix] Windows can&#8217;t find one of the files in this theme error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At regular intervals, you may see an unprompted &#8220;Save a Theme&#8221; error message dialog on your Windows 10 computer. When you dismiss the prompt by clicking either &#8220;Yes&#8221; or &#8220;No,&#8221; the pop-up may reappear.<\/p>\n<div class=\"err\"><strong>Save a Theme<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Windows can&#8217;t find one of the files in this theme. Do you still want to save the theme?\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/save-a-theme-error-1.png\" alt=\"save a theme error - windows can't find\" width=\"698\" height=\"325\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Cause<\/h2>\n<p>The &#8220;Windows can&#8217;t find one of the files in this theme&#8221; error can occur due to one of the reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The theme you downloaded is a malformed theme.<\/li>\n<li>Your current theme is broken. It&#8217;s missing a file that was defined at one point (in the .theme file) as being part of it. The missing element in your theme file may be a wallpaper image (.jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .dib, .tif, .png), sound file (.wav), cursor (.ani, .cur), icon (.ico), or the brand image (.png) file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The error message is generated by <strong>SettingSyncHost.exe<\/strong> &#8212; File description: Host Process for Setting Synchronization. If you have enabled syncing Themes, the host process for setting synchronization tries to sync your theme to the Microsoft cloud and then this error occurs.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> Using the <strong>Find Window&#8217;s Process<\/strong> feature in Windows Sysinternals Process Explorer, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/determine-program-process-owns-error-message-window\/\">find the process that owns a Window or dialog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>[Fix] Windows can&#8217;t find one of the files in this theme<\/h2>\n<p>It is possible that the theme you&#8217;ve downloaded is malformed. The .theme file may have bogus elements inside, pointing to one or more non-existent files. The Windows 10 Settings synchronization tool is notifying you that an item in the theme is missing.<\/p>\n<p>Another possibility is that you customized the theme by adding a screensaver, wallpaper images, sounds or cursors from a different source, and later deleted the theme-related files, renamed or moved the theme assets folder to a different location on the hard drive. Either way, the theme becomes malformed.<\/p>\n<h3>Redownload the theme or Switch to a new theme<\/h3>\n<p>The best way to fix the problem is to delete the theme you&#8217;re using and download a fresh copy from the Microsoft Store. If the error reappears, then the theme pack itself could be the problem. Switching to another theme should help.<\/p>\n<div class=\"qt\">\nThe SettingSyncHost.exe reads the current active <strong>.theme<\/strong> file and fetches the assets mentioned in it. It packs them, not necessarily with a .themepack extension, and uploads it to the Microsoft cloud. When the sync engine finds missing theme files, it halts the process. Last sync operation is written to the following registry key:<\/p>\n<pre>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\SettingSync\\SyncData\\Namespace\\windows\\theme<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/save-a-theme-error-registry.png\" alt=\"save a theme error - windows can't find\" width=\"700\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The key contains four REG_DWORD values namely:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>AttemptedOperations<\/li>\n<li>Created<\/li>\n<li>IsLocalReplicaDirty<\/li>\n<li>PendingOperations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It could be possible that if <code>IsLocalReplicaDirty<\/code> has the value data of <code>1<\/code>, then one or more files in your theme are missing.\n<\/div>\n<h3>Does &#8220;Save theme for sharing&#8221; option work?<\/h3>\n<p>Let&#8217;s perform a small test.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click Start \u2192 Settings \u2192 Personalization \u2192 Themes<\/li>\n<li>Right-click on your current theme, and click <strong>Save theme for sharing<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/save-a-theme-error-2.png\" alt=\"save a theme error - windows can't find\" width=\"299\" height=\"291\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you getting the same <strong>Windows can&#8217;t find&#8230;<\/strong>\u00a0error? If so, you should be able to find out the missing theme elements by repeating the process when running a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/process-monitor-track-events-generate-log-file\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Process Monitor trace<\/a> (for advanced users). In Process Monitor, you need to include <strong>SettingSyncHost.exe<\/strong> in the filter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> In the upcoming 19H1 Windows 10 feature update v1903, Microsoft will make some changes so that the &#8220;Save a Theme&#8221; prompt will not appear frequently.<\/p>\n<p><em>We&#8217;ve made some improvements to reduce the number of times where you might see the error \u201cWindows can\u2019t find one of the files in this theme. Do you still want to save the theme?\u201d appear.<\/em> ~ Src: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2018\/12\/10\/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-18298\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 10 Insider &#8211; Windows Experience Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Workaround for &#8220;Save a Theme&#8221; error<\/h2>\n<p>If reinstalling a theme or switching to a new theme doesn&#8217;t help, you may disable syncing of Themes as a workaround.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click Start \u2192 Settings \u2192 Accounts \u2192 <strong>Sync your settings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Turn off the toggle switch for <strong>Theme<\/strong><br \/>\n \t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/save-a-theme-error-3.png\" alt=\"save a theme error - windows can't find\" width=\"700\" height=\"361\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disabling syncing, I agree, is not a permanent solution. But, at least gets rid of the annoying <strong>Save a Theme<\/strong> error annoyance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_10-start\/unprompted-save-a-theme-error-in-windows-10\/2ccf61dc-4faf-4e9e-9a0e-35722c38ee00?msgid=6e3cd8e1-0bce-46e8-a2b7-cd1262ba3014\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Here is my post<\/a> at Microsoft Answers back in 2016. Around 650 users have indicated that this has solved the problem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/disable-theme-sync-ramesh.png\" alt=\"save a theme error - windows can&#039;t find\" width=\"694\" height=\"409\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9035\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The synchronization engine must be designed such that, should there be missing theme elements, it should ignore the missing parts and proceed on to the next file. It&#8217;s something the Windows 10 team has to do, and hopefully, they get this issue fixed in the upcoming build 19H1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At regular intervals, you may see an unprompted &#8220;Save a Theme&#8221; error message dialog on your Windows 10 computer. When you dismiss the prompt by clicking either &#8220;Yes&#8221; or &#8220;No,&#8221; the pop-up may reappear. Save a Theme Windows can&#8217;t find one of the files in this theme. Do you still want to save the theme?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[191,593],"class_list":["post-9030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","tag-error-messages","tag-themes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4883,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/deskthemepack-extract-themepack-wallpapers-windows\/","url_meta":{"origin":9030,"position":0},"title":"Extract Wallpapers from DeskThemePack and ThemePack Files","author":"Ramesh","date":"December 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This article shows you different ways of extracting wallpaper images from a theme pack file in Windows. 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