Question

How do I permanently remove missing libraries that appear in the assets panels of every file?

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
March 26, 2024
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I had months back enabled a library for my files but I soon deleted the file (which was a community file - "Wireframing Starter Kit’) but the library is still published and I can’t unpublish it or remove it from appearing in all my design files. The library doesn’t show up in the enabled library settings too.

The problem is the deleted file still appears in my recent files section but I can’t see any option to delete it. Also when I enter the community file and try to unpublish it, there is no such option and neither can I select the library for more options.

My problem is similar to this solved problem on the forum: [SOLVED] How do I remove libraries that appear in the "libraries" modal?

But in my case since it is a community file, I can’t change the access settings of the file. And I am stuck with this very annoying problem.

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y_toku

Community Support

Hey there,

Thanks for reaching out. You should be able to delete the files even though the files are the ones you copied from Community. Could you please check this article to delete it?

Figma Learn - Help Center

If you can’t solve the problem, could you reach out directly to the support team with a copy of your file: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new? Our support team can look into your account information.

Please make sure you use the email associated with your Figma account, include links to the file in question, and share access with support-share@figma.com. Don’t worry, inviting us to view your file won’t impact your billing.

Thanks!
Toku

laurel.ch

New Participant

I am dealing with this too. I want to completely delete missing libraries and reset all of those styles. When I was a contractor I created a Design System and then when I converted, they wanted their own Figma and i had to move everything over. Now the old ghost design system (which doesn’t even exist anymore) will randomly pop up in my new design system as a Missing Library. I’m going crazy. I don’t understand why some things transferred perfectly between design systems, but some things are missing or insist on staying linked to the old library.

I would like a way to just delete and reset all missing library sh*t so I can start over with my styles (which would be faster at this point).

Product Design Lead, Enterprise Software 🏳️‍🌈 12 years designing for software, 7 years in Figma

y_toku

Community Support

Hi there,

If you keep seeing the missing libraries, could you reach out directly to the support team with a copy of your file: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new ? Our support team can look into it.

Please make sure you use the email associated with your Figma account, include links to the file in question, and share access with support-share@figma.com. Don’t worry, inviting us to view your file won’t impact your billing.

Thanks for your patience.
Toku

laurel.ch

New Participant

That plugin worked to at least remove the missing items by breaking/unlinking them, but sadly was unable to replace with the appropriate styles except manually one-by-won. Please fix this Figma!

Product Design Lead, Enterprise Software 🏳️‍🌈 12 years designing for software, 7 years in Figma

Julie_Cochran

New Member

It doesn’t seem like the question brought up has really been answered in this thread. How do we unlink libraries (or delete them) from new libraries? What is the plugin being referred to?

Stephan_Nuber

I have the same issue. Where can I delete a missing library from the list of libraries a file is using?

G

Gram_Hill

Was there ever an answer here? I can’t get rid of the styles that appear under “Includes 1 missing library”

Amanda_McKee

New Member

I have not been able to solve this. The library of my ghost file is not attached to my new file, and all instances of the old component from outside of my file have been deleted. Yet, it still shows up in my assets search, causing confusion as to what is actually components available within my file.