Update theme without loosing code customization

Topic summary

  • Goal: Upgrade a Shopify “Sense” theme from version 2.0 to 8.0.
  • Issue: Automatic updating isn’t possible because the theme code was directly edited/customized.
  • Request: Guidance on how to update to the latest theme version while keeping all existing site functionality and custom code intact (i.e., avoiding loss of customizations during the migration).
  • Context: Concern centers on preserving code changes that may be overwritten by a standard update process; no images, code snippets, or attachments provided.
  • Status: No responses or solutions yet; the question remains open and unresolved.
Summarized with AI on February 1. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi all, i would like to update my sense 2.0 theme to the latest 8.0 update, but i cannot do it automatically cause i ve done some edit on the code.

Theres a way to mantain all my site updating it?