Distill site cannot rename index.html anymore

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My site is working okay so far. All the contents are on github. It might be important to mention that I have used the postcards package for making my index.html.

But now that I am trying to build the site using the Build tab in RStudio, I am getting the following error:

Warning message:
In file.rename(output, output_dest) :
  cannot rename file 'D:/udurrani_distill/index.html' to './_site/index.html', reason 'The system cannot find the file specified'

I have not changed anything on the site, just clicked on Build Website in the Build tab. When I open the index.html from within _site, I see a postcardspage but the background color and header are missing.

What has suddenly gone wrong?

For reference, I am pasting the index.html source and the result of render_site() below.

index.html in _site:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <!-- Required meta tags -->
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">

    <!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">

    <title>Umair Durrani</title>

    
          <script src="index_files/accessible-code-block-0.0.1/empty-anchor.js"></script>
    
    
  </head>
  <body>

    
    <div class="container min-vh-100">
      <div class="row min-vh-100 justify-content-center align-items-center">
        <div class="col-12 text-center">
          <img src=umair2.png style="height:10rem" class="rounded-circle">
          <div class="mt-3">
            <h1>Umair Durrani</h1>
          </div>
          <div class="row justify-content-center align-items-center">
            <div class="col-6 mt-3 text-center d-none d-sm-block">
              <p>I am a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Windsor. My research is about driver behavior and its role in traffic safety in mixed traffic flow. I love <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/"><code>R</code></a> and Rstudio. <a href="Umair_Durrani_Resume.pdf">Download my resume</a>.</p>
              <p>You know my name, now tell me yours:</p>
              <iframe src="https://umair.shinyapps.io/name_app/" style="width: 60%; height: 120px;">
              </iframe>
            </div>
            <div class="col-11 mt-3 text-center d-block d-sm-none">
              <p>I am a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Windsor. My research is about driver behavior and its role in traffic safety in mixed traffic flow. I love <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/"><code>R</code></a> and Rstudio. <a href="Umair_Durrani_Resume.pdf">Download my resume</a>.</p>
              <p>You know my name, now tell me yours:</p>
              <iframe src="https://umair.shinyapps.io/name_app/" style="width: 60%; height: 120px;">
              </iframe>
            </div>
          </div>

          <hr style="width:60%;"/>

          <div class="row justify-content-center align-items-center">
            <div class="col-8 text-center d-none d-sm-block">
              <ul class="list-inline">
                                <li class="list-inline-item">
                  <a href=https://www.linkedin.com/in/durraniu/>
                    <button type="button" class="btn btn-outline-dark mb-2">
                      LinkedIn
                    </button>
                  </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="list-inline-item">
                  <a href=https://twitter.com/umairdurrani87>
                    <button type="button" class="btn btn-outline-dark mb-2">
                      Twitter
                    </button>
                  </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="list-inline-item">
                  <a href=https://github.com/durraniu>
                    <button type="button" class="btn btn-outline-dark mb-2">
                      GitHub
                    </button>
                  </a>
                </li>
                              </ul>
            </div>
          </div>

          <div class="row justify-content-center align-items-center">
            <div class="col-8 m-1 text-center d-block d-sm-none">
              <div class="list-group">
                                <a href=https://www.linkedin.com/in/durraniu/>
                  <button type="button" class="list-group-item list-group-item-action my-1 rounded">
                    LinkedIn
                  </button>
                </a>
                                <a href=https://twitter.com/umairdurrani87>
                  <button type="button" class="list-group-item list-group-item-action my-1 rounded">
                    Twitter
                  </button>
                </a>
                                <a href=https://github.com/durraniu>
                  <button type="button" class="list-group-item list-group-item-action my-1 rounded">
                    GitHub
                  </button>
                </a>
                              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

    <!-- Optional JavaScript -->
    <!-- jQuery first, then Popper.js, then Bootstrap JS -->
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-DfXdz2htPH0lsSSs5nCTpuj/zy4C+OGpamoFVy38MVBnE+IbbVYUew+OrCXaRkfj" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-Q6E9RHvbIyZFJoft+2mJbHaEWldlvI9IOYy5n3zV9zzTtmI3UksdQRVvoxMfooAo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-OgVRvuATP1z7JjHLkuOU7Xw704+h835Lr+6QL9UvYjZE3Ipu6Tp75j7Bh/kR0JKI" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

    
  </body>
</html>

Full output of render_site() 

==> rmarkdown::render_site(encoding = 'UTF-8')


Rendering: ./Blog.Rmd
  |......................................................................| 100%
  ordinary text without R code


NOTE: Not creating feed for posts (no base_url defined for site) 

"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS Blog.utf8.md --to html5 --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output Blog.html --lua-filter "C:\Users\umair\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\rmarkdown\rmarkdown\lua\pagebreak.lua" --lua-filter "C:\Users\umair\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\rmarkdown\rmarkdown\lua\latex-div.lua" --standalone --variable toc-float=1 --highlight-style "C:/Users/umair/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/distill/rmarkdown/templates/distill_article/resources/arrow.theme" --template "C:\Users\umair\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\distill\rmarkdown\templates\distill_article\resources\default.html" "--metadata=link-citations:true" --variable layout=listing --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b8200a121chtml" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b847009fchtml" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b879e14aefhtml" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b8667a1519html" --include-before-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b828c277adhtml" --include-before-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b8660c4964html" --include-before-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b830cc5dahtml" --include-before-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b86b56700chtml" --include-after-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b82645dd6html" --include-after-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b81eb632bdhtml" --include-after-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b82bbf2e98html" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\rmarkdown-str13b83f147557.html" --mathjax --variable "mathjax-url:https://mathjax.rstudio.com/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b863c27140html" 

Rendering: ./index.Rmd
  |......................................................................| 100%
  ordinary text without R code


"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS index.utf8.md --to html5 --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output index.html --lua-filter "C:\Users\umair\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\rmarkdown\rmarkdown\lua\pagebreak.lua" --lua-filter "C:\Users\umair\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\rmarkdown\rmarkdown\lua\latex-div.lua" --standalone --variable toc-float=1 --highlight-style "C:/Users/umair/Documents/R/win-library/4.0/distill/rmarkdown/templates/distill_article/resources/arrow.theme" --template "C:\Users\umair\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\distill\rmarkdown\templates\distill_article\resources\default.html" "--metadata=link-citations:true" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b86e132c3chtml" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b8686ba0html" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b84a306d14html" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b839116d74html" --include-before-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b85c6a466ehtml" --include-before-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b823fd742bhtml" --include-before-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b861b862b4html" --include-after-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b81b9a226html" --include-after-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b871fc2573html" --include-after-body "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b864f64811html" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\rmarkdown-str13b859ea7a4c.html" --mathjax --variable "mathjax-url:https://mathjax.rstudio.com/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML" --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\file13b8a87711ehtml" 
  |......................................................................| 100%
  ordinary text without R code


"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS index.utf8.md --to html4 --from markdown+tex_math_single_backslash-autolink_bare_uris --output index.html --lua-filter "C:\Users\umair\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\rmarkdown\rmarkdown\lua\pagebreak.lua" --lua-filter "C:\Users\umair\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\rmarkdown\rmarkdown\lua\latex-div.lua" --standalone --section-divs --template "C:\Users\umair\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\postcards\pandoc_templates\jolla.html" --highlight-style pygments --include-in-header "C:\Users\umair\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiSCl9H\rmarkdown-str13b810bd5daf.html" 

Processing posts:
  _posts/2020-12-25-elevation-maps-in-r 

Output created: _site/index.html
  _posts/2020-12-19-hellowww 

Warning message:
In file.rename(output, output_dest) :
  cannot rename file 'D:/udurrani_distill/index.html' to './_site/index.html', reason 'The system cannot find the file specified'
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I run into the same problem this week. The way to solve it is to install the dev version of distill.

devtools::install_github("rstudio/distill")

It will prompt you to upgrade your rmarkdown to a newer version. By doing so, this will resolve the bug (at least in my case).

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