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I tried that and my page template did not show up in the drop down. What am I doing wrong?

OK – found my problem. My theme had a templates directory and that is where I put the custom template – and that was incorrect. I needed to put the template in the theme directory and now it works, whew.

I have MAMP installed and am getting the same error when trying to upload a theme.
Yes, a workaround would be to unzip the theme files and just put them in the themes directory, but …. why the error?