# I deleted the theme a recording came from

## What survives

The recordings. Every one taken from that theme stays on your timeline — under **Include what came before this theme** if it was not your current live theme — and can still be opened and compared.

## What does not

Restoring from them. Both restore shapes need the theme: a single-file restore writes back into it, and a whole-version restore makes a copy of it. Once the theme is deleted from Shopify, neither has anywhere to go. The recording is not damaged; the theme is what is gone.

The screen says so rather than offering a button that cannot work: *"That theme is no longer on this store."*

## Can it be undone?

<Hint type="danger">

Not by Snapty — Snapty never produces a theme from its own stored files. Shopify's theme library has no trash either. A deleted theme is gone.

</Hint>

## Next time

If a theme's history matters to you, restore it into a copy **before** deleting the original. A theme sitting in your library costs nothing, and it is the only form a recording can be turned back into.