Moving components between files

Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s a super easy way to do this. Once you remove the component from File A, all the instances will remain with a note in the right panel that the parent component has been deleted. Once you add the component to File B, you would then have to swap each existing instance to point to the File B component using the Swap Instance functionality in the right panel.

(These instructions are assuming that File B is a library file that is linked to whatever files the instances are in. Not sure if it’s as simple if File B isn’t a library since I don’t have as much experience with that.)

Hi @Joshua_Kaufman ! Was wondering if you found an easier solution to this instead of manually changing all the instances 😃

Thanks!

Thanks for responding @tank666 ! That’s what I initially did, but it didn’t work. The components I moved were initially unpublished. Publishing after moving them to a different file still does redirects me to the original file when I click “Go to main component” on the 2nd file.

Thanks @tank666! That works.

I made changes already on the other file though. So I still have to redo the links manually. I’ll take note of that for next time 😃