Copied template not updating

[DorsetJoomla]

I have just come across an interesting issue. I have a site using Purity 3 which I created several years ago and recently migrated it to Joomla 4 whereupon the frontend stopped working. After a lot of digging around I realised that the problem was that I was using a very old version of Purity 3 even though I had been applying updates. When I looked at the templates I can see that I originally made a copy of the template (to use as the default template) which seems to have stayed at version 1 whilst another version (which isn't in use) gets updated. If I look through the extension listing there are two copies of Purity 3 in there and even if I uninstall the newer one the copied version will not update. Short of deleting and reinstalling (and losing the changes I have made) is there any way of forcing an update?
Thanks Dennis

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[AMurray]

The latest version is 2.0.3 (11 July 2023) so you're still out of date (screenshot shows 2.0.2).

You're right - the copy you made won't get updated, only the original installation of the template will.

Perhaps the best thing, switch to Cassieopeia temporarily. Remove purity III completely then reinstall it, along with its associated framework plugin.

Then re-assign the property module positions etc.

Perhaps it would be wise to update Purity III to Purity IV and the framework to T4 rather than T3 as that probably won't work forever, especially on new PHP 8.2 and onwards.