Renaming a Repo for a Published Library?

Troubleshooting
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Is it possible to rename a repo for a published library?

I’ve renamed my https://github.com/exosite-garage/SparkCore-Exosite to https://github.com/exosite-garage/particle_exosite_library. Is there any way to now update the library in the web IDE? When I try to use the new repo name it says that the name is already taken. When I try to use the old name it the validation page is just blank.

Do I just need to rename it to the old repo name to get it to update? Or is there a way to delete the old library so I can publish from the new repo?

Also, side note. It doesn’t seem to like it when I renamed spark.json to particle.json like the docs said I should.

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@Azdle, have you changed the version number in your json file? It won’t update unless you bump the version number.

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Yep, the web IDE is showing 0.0.1 and my json file has 0.0.2.

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So, I guess that means no?

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@Azdle, I am having the same problem and raised the problem to the Particle team.

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Awesome, thanks @peekay123.

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Hi Patrick,

to do this you have to delete the library first, then import and publish new version.

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@suda It won’t let me delete it because others are using it, “Library has 25 apps that still include it, please bring this to zero to proceed.”

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Okay, so I’m dumb. Apparently I have two different accounts and had originally published that library under the account that I had forgotten about. I went and tried to publish it again, with the new name for the repo, on the other account and it worked just fine.

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