Title: Having trouble uploading theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Having trouble uploading theme

 *  [reedreport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reedreport/)
 * (@reedreport)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-trouble-uploading-theme/)
 * I just switched to Word Press and downloaded a theme to my computer. It gave 
   me no option other than to put it on my desktop, but I am having a difficult 
   time uploading it. I am new at all this and when I go to Filezilla I can’t seem
   to find the theme (clean-bluehaze-06) anywhere, yet it is still on my desktop.
   Am I doing something stupid or is this a real problem? I am on a Mac and using
   Firefox if that makes a difference

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 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-trouble-uploading-theme/#post-669584)
 * You download a theme to your computer (I would have preferred the option “save”
   and then selected a folder) and you [upload](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes)
   the theme using FTP in the themes folder (in /wp-includes I believe). THEN you
   go to your WP admin-panel and select the theme.
 *  Thread Starter [reedreport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reedreport/)
 * (@reedreport)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-trouble-uploading-theme/#post-669600)
 * I tried saving it but it gave me no option of where to save it—it just saved 
   to my desktop.
 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-trouble-uploading-theme/#post-669608)
 * When you download something, you use the right mousebutton and click on “save
   as”, right? This allows you to choose both the name AND the location where to
   store the file, the same as with any download.
    I cannot try right now if you
   can now click right on the icon on your dashboard and say “extract to” or something,
   but you may want to give that a go now you have got the file on your desktop 
   anyway.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-trouble-uploading-theme/#post-669608)
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