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All time, since Apr 1, 2025.
Initial theme sync fails
“Failed to perform the initial theme synchronization.”
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Initial theme synchronization fails during theme dev. Requests to the admin API fail with timeouts, TLS socket disconnects, or "The user aborted a request"; rerunning sometimes works.
Is this your bug?
File my report- Where
- theme commands
- Error text
Failed to perform the initial theme synchronization.- Versions
- 3.80.7 to 3.81.2
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Windows
- How bad
- Breaks a normal workflow. Some reports say it blocks them completely.
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Original reports8, newest first
- <YOUR ISSUE TITLE>On GitHubcli #6500
- Failed to perform the initial theme synchronizationOn GitHubcli #6499
- Theme commands hitting network issuesOn GitHubcli #6062
- Shopify Theme Dev "Failed to perform initial theme synchronization"On GitHubcli #6019
- shopify theme dev hanging on certain themesOn GitHubcli #5918
- Failed to perform the initial theme synchronizationOn GitHubcli #5917
- Failed to perform the initial theme synchronization.On GitHubcli #5667
Theme Devunable to perform initial theme synchronizationOn GitHubcli #5595