# Can't upload theme from file

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-upload-theme-from-file/73376>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [3 Novembre 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-upload-theme-from-file/73376 "2017-11-03T18:09:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [14 Novembre 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-upload-theme-from-file/73376/13 "2017-11-14T05:31:31Z")

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This is a rather hairy change, uploads are now base64 encoded in the json payload for theme export.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/47e4c9bb468fca10f4818df3bc44a67990eb75aa](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/47e4c9bb468fca10f4818df3bc44a67990eb75aa)

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