A client asks you to rename a site from acme-staging to the production name acme . The moment you rename it in the app, the DB backups, screenshots, and thumbnails you had been collecting all appear to disappear . The files are still on disk, but the new directory is empty.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/susumun/renaming-a-site-without-losing-its-data-separating-display-name-from-a-stable-identifier-gpb)