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I use Magento 2 custom theme and when I made changes to .less file, I wanted to compile files, so I deleted pub/static folder and made deploy: php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy. After that, no css files are found in pub/static/frontend/<Theme>/default/css. Also, when I use grunt less, I got errors:

>> Destination pub/static/frontend/Magento/blank/en_US/css/styles-m.css not written because no source files were found.
>> Destination pub/static/frontend/Magento/blank/en_US/css/styles-l.css not written because no source files were found.
>> Destination pub/static/frontend/Magento/blank/en_US/css/email.css not written because no source files were found.
>> Destination pub/static/frontend/Magento/blank/en_US/css/email-inline.css not written because no source files were found.

I am in a developer mode.

Does anyone have any solution for this?

Thank you

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  • 'pub/static' should be writable.
    – Sohel Rana
    Commented Jun 15, 2016 at 14:18

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You need to run grunt exec and then grunt less.

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    Could not get grunt watch to work after clearing static-content, this solution solved it. Thanks @Aaron!
    – jamil
    Commented Jun 21, 2017 at 15:21
  • Great! Can you mark this as the answer?
    – Aaron
    Commented Jun 24, 2017 at 23:44
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    It wasn't my question, just letting other users know this is a working solution :D I wish you many upvotes
    – jamil
    Commented Jun 26, 2017 at 16:28
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It could be because you deleted the .htaccess file from pub/static. It can be found here https://github.com/magento/magento2/blob/develop/pub/static/.htaccess. Next time run rm -rf pub/static/* var/view_preprocessed/* instead of deleting the directory.

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