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Hi there,


I have a Design Library file in which I use to make changes to the master. I then push these to my Project file.


I have never experienced issues before with pushing out changes to the project file, overrides have been preserved. However, today I am experiencing an issue where my overrides in the Project file are being wiped upon updating the library.


Example steps:



  • Library has an ‘icon’ component with lots of different icons as variants. These are all coloured red in the library file (original component definition)

  • I’ve used many icons in the Project file where. I’ve overridden the colour of the icon

  • I added a new icon variant within this component in the Library file

  • Published the change

  • Updated the library in the Project file


Expected result (and previous behaviour):



  • All icons remain in their selected colours in the Project file, but I can optionally switch the variant to the added icon


Actual result:



  • Upon updating the library, all icons in my Project file have reverted to red colouring (have lost my colour overrides)


Other overrides have been lost too, but have used the above as an example.


Can you please advise what’s happening here and if there are any workarounds? Unfortunately it’s not going to be manageable for me to redo every override that I’ve made after each push.


Thanks,

Audrey


What about those that have only created their libraries in the last few days, we’ve literally lost days of work here and even if we pull components in to new libraries and push from that the issue remains.

Hey all, thanks for hanging in there with us.


If you were affected by this issue, you can now try the following steps:



  1. Reload Figma

  2. As an extra precaution, please try this on a duplicate of your file first.

  3. Run “Fix instance overrides” from the Quick Actions menu (cmd-/).

  4. This should restore the majority of missing instance overrides.


If the above steps work on the duplicate file, please repeat them with the original file to apply the fix.


If you had partially re-applied some overrides to an instance by hand and are still missing some old overrides after running this action, please send a ticket to Figma Support (steps outlined below). Our team is working on building a more sophisticated tool to help remediate these more complex cases and we’ll update you when it’s ready.


If the above recovery steps are not working, or if you’re experiencing other issues, please reach out via our Support contact form. We will also need you to add support-share@figma.com, with edit access , to the library file and a file with a broken override instance. Please link us to the exact component and instance so we can expedite a fix.


Thanks!


PS: We’ll be providing further updates later in the day

Hey everyone we just shared an update with some more details around this bug, how it happened, and what steps we’re taking to make sure it doesn’t occur again. 😊


Feel free to read more here:


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