There are no changes reflected on deploying the theme in liferay 6.1.1

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I am a newbie to liferay CMS. I am developing a theme in liferay 6.1.1. my problem is when i am making any changes to the theme it doesnt get reflected after deploying it. Please check if i am in the right flow:

Firstly new --> liferay project --> selected theme
Deployed nthe theme which created the -diffs folder and the remaining all folders in the docroot folder inside the theme.
Copied the portlet_normal.vm from the template folder from my theme and made changes.
Pasted portlet_normal.vm in my theme inside the docroot(folder) --> _diffs(folder) --> templates(folder).
Redeployed the theme but there were no changes reflected.

My portlet_normal.vm file is:

<!DOCTYPE html>

#parse ($init)

<html class="#language("lang.dir")" dir="#language("lang.dir")" lang="$w3c_language_id">

<head>
    <title>$the_title - $company_name</title>

    $theme.include($top_head_include)
</head>

<body class="$css_class">

$theme.include($body_top_include)

#if ($is_signed_in)
    #dockbar()
#end

<div id="wrapper">
    <a href="#main-content" id="skip-to-content">#language("skip-to-content")</a>

    <header id="banner" role="banner">
        <div id="heading">
            <h1 class="site-title">
                <a class="$logo_css_class" href="$site_default_url" title="#language("go-to") $site_name">
                    <img alt="$logo_description" height="$site_logo_height" src="$site_logo" width="$site_logo_width" />
                </a>

                #if ($show_site_name)
                    <span class="site-name" title="#language("go-to") $site_name">
                        $site_name
                    </span>
                #end
            </h1>

            <h2 class="page-title">
                <span>$the_title</span>
            </h2>
        </div>

        #if (!$is_signed_in)
            <a href="$sign_in_url" id="sign-in" rel="nofollow">$sign_in_text</a>
        #end

        #if ($has_navigation || $is_signed_in)
            #parse ("$full_templates_path/navigation.vm")
        #end
    </header>

    <div id="content">
        **/*<nav class="site-breadcrumbs" id="breadcrumbs">
            <h1>
                <span>#language("breadcrumbs")</span>
            </h1>
            #breadcrumbs()
        </nav>*/**


        #if ($selectable)
            $theme.include($content_include)
        #else
            $portletDisplay.recycle()

            $portletDisplay.setTitle($the_title)

            $theme.wrapPortlet("portlet.vm", $content_include)
        #end
    </div>

    <footer id="footer" role="contentinfo">
        <p class="powered-by">
            #language("powered-by") <a href="http://www.liferay.com" rel="external">Liferay</a>
        </p>
    </footer>
</div>

$theme.include($body_bottom_include)

</body>

$theme.include($bottom_include)

</html>

Actually i want to hide the breadcrumbs getting displayed in the home page. so i have commented that particular portion in portlet_normal.vm Any help regarding this will be appreciated , i am completely stuck in this.

Adel Adel · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-16T12:22:01

You have two possibilities:
If you are developping, you can set the portal in dev mode adding
include-and-override=portal-developer.properties
into your portal-ext.properties which should be under the portal root.
If you are in production this option should be disabled and you should check the following

Try to open the XML file build-common-theme.xml under the themes folder in your SDK and remove all the preservelastmodified="true" (or set them to false).

preservelastmodified, when true will not update the files timestamp in your theme project. Therefore, your application server will not detect the changes and redeploy the theme.

There are no changes reflected on deploying the theme in liferay 6.1.1

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