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Amy_Mauriello

Hopefully someone can help me. For the last several days I have been having an issue with one of my components in my shared component library. I have been actively making changes and publishing them to the shared component library to use in a separate Figma file. Both the Library file and the separate file have a blue icon under Assets > Updates for this one component. The grey update button doesn’t work. When I click it nothing happens. The blue “update all” button simply dismisses the window, but the component update notification is still present.
asset button issue

I have tried

  • deleting and restoring the component
  • renaming the component
  • updating other components and publishing all changes to the library
  • closing and re-opening Figma
  • restarting my computer

Any thoughts on how to resolve this?

Also, another weird thing I observed… most of the components in the Library file are in the “Local” component list. Why are some listed separately when they are from the same file?
TIA

Best answer by Kyja_Kutnick

I was changing the hex codes on a main color component, but keeping the color name the same, when I published the library, the colors were not updating elsewhere.

Troubleshooting:
changed the name of the color neutral-1 to test-neutral > published it > accepted it in the new files > the color & name updated accordingly

i went back to change the test-neutral to neutral-1 > published the hex value under the proper name > accepted it in the new file and voila!

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Amy_Mauriello

Here is the other component image ( I couldn’t attach above)

Screen Shot 2022-06-28 at 12.44.57 PM

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Kaylee
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  • June 28, 2022

I’ve been having this same problem today, and I have no idea why it’s happening! It’s really annoying though! I hope @Figma_Support can fix it!

Alaa5
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Leif1
  • Leif1
  • 4 replies
  • June 29, 2022

Having the same issue

Dena2
  • Dena2
  • 1 reply
  • June 30, 2022

Same issue here

Aliaksandra1

I have been trying to update the component from the library for nearly a week, the same problem((

Lee_Caufman
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Kaiko
  • Kaiko
  • 1 reply
  • July 3, 2022

Same here 😦

Zia.Irshad

I’m facing the same problem. Updated MUI library with my own color theme and component styles and published the library, now trying to update those components being used in another file but no luck T-T

Men
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pierrelord
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  • 15 replies
  • July 6, 2022

+1 Same issue. @Figma_Support ?

Alejandro_Carle_Naon

+1 any news on this? @Figma_Support

Tamara10
  • Tamara10
  • 1 reply
  • July 6, 2022

Same issue 😦

Lee_Caufman
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Nicholas_Del_Conte

The same issue, components are not updating across files with a shared library!!

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Martin_Hill

Same issue, improved component in the library>Published library> updated component in project file but the component in questions doesn’t update in the file or from the assets panel.

Martin_Hill

Scratch that, I just realized I had conflicting overrides names which didn’t get flagged. I corrected and all is good and the project files are updated.

Viktor_Teplov

I ran the “search by name” plugin on each page of the project and found a component that was not updated in the hidden layers

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j.au
  • j.au
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  • July 29, 2022

I have exactly the same issue. It’s super annoying. Any fix yet?

Alex60
  • Alex60
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  • July 29, 2022

The same issue. Found the solution. I created a new file and was moving artboards one by one to it until I got the “update” message again at the new file. That is how I found the broken artboard. The broken component on this page was at the hidden layer, so I unhided all layers with component, then updated library (or you could try “reset all changes”) and the problem gone.

Seems like hidden components have some updating issue.

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Cynthia3
  • Cynthia3
  • 3 replies
  • July 29, 2022

Same issue. @Figma_Support

Paola1
  • Paola1
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  • July 29, 2022

Same for me as well. @Figma_Support

Nathalie_Gouzee1

Same issue @Figma_Support

Brittany_Garcia1

I am experiencing the same issue

Hakim
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  • August 3, 2022

Same issue here — and not only on hidden components

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Fredrik4
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  • August 3, 2022

I have a similar issue. But the component from the external lib is updated and changed… But the indication that is needs updating it still left in the “Updates” tab.
So for me the bug is that the “Updates” tab does not relize the component is updated and the bullet notification is still there… even though the update has gone through…

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konstantin14

Same issue ((

Yash_Gupta

I am having the same issue. Going through files to find hidden instances of that component and then unhiding and updating is really tedious. I hope this gets fixed soon.

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Roxas_Shee

I have the same issue, this is blocking my work

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