I can definitely take that approach, although it sounds like every time a backup from (e.g. Live) is restored to another environment like test, this is an additional thing that needs to be done afterwards before it can be used.
Itās why I said to make the theme in the Production DB. So you dont have to re-create it every time.
Thereās a handful things I have to do every time I copy the PROD to Live. So simply selecting the āTestā theme as the default isnāt a big deal.
Understood. Youāre right, itās not a big deal, but every time another thing gets added to the list of stuff that must be down when a database gets copied, the list gets a little longer. 
Anyway, I was hoping maybe 6153ESC had some way that bypassed that - donāt know why it has disappeared.