Publishing 3.8 to web host Error aka The DarkOrange theme rises again

I have version 3.8 running fine on my local environment using Visual Studio 2015. It builds fine locally, launches the app, and I can go through the site with no problems.

I am now trying to publish it to my web host via the FTP method from within VS2015. It connects fine, but then throws the following error:

Cannot evaluate the item metadata "%(RootDir)". The item metadata "%(FullPath)" cannot be applied to the path obj\Release\TransformWebConfig\transformed\Plugins\SevenSpikes.Nop.Plugins.NopQuickTabs\AutomaticIntegration\DarkOrange\Views\Web.config". C:\Users\lmcelhaney\Dropbox\LK Shared Docs\Les\Programming Projects\WebSites\Cyclogical\Cyclogical 380s\Presentation\Nop.Web\obj\Release\TransformWebConfig\transformed\Plugins\SevenSpikes.Nop.Plugins.NopQuickTabs\AutomaticIntegration\DarkOrange\Views\Web.config

There are at least two issues I see here:
1) I do not know why the DarkOrange theme is showing up. It was sun-setted a couple of nopCommerce versions ago. My upgrade has no references to it as far as I can find until I run this FTP publish routine.  
2) The plugin referenced NopQuickTabs is NOT installed in my configuration. It was previously, but I both disabled and uninstalled it.

Any insight is appreciated.

Les

Hi Les,

I believe you have some older version of the Quick Tabs plugin (some really really old version since the Automatic integration was removed 3 years ago).
Please simply search for "NopQuickTabs" in your VS solution (since the publish target will try to publish all file included in the Nop.Web project) and solution folder and delete anything you find.
Then please download the 3.80 version of the plugin and use it instead.

p.s: I have replied in our forums as well.

Thanks,
Boyko

Boyko, this is from a freshly downloaded and installed QuickTab 3.8 plugin on top of a fresh nopCommerce 3.8 installation.