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How to find the exact Creation Date of your Figma files?


Poseidon

Hello! While moving my drafts, I had to choose whether or not I should delete them. The “creation date” of my files became a very important element to make these decisions… except there’s no precise date written anywhere. There’s only “2 years ago” and such.

So I looked it up on the blog and forum. And, surprisingly, there’s little to no content about this issue. From what I read, the only solution given in years was to open the “history version” and look up to the bottom (thanks to the paid plan).
The only workaround I have found so far is to manually write the creation date inside every new file you create, but it does not apply retroactively lol.

So my initial question was: how to look at the file’s creation date?
Then my question became: why is it not possible to look at this basic metadata of my files? Alternatively, are there plans to finally make it available easily for everyone?

Thank you in advance.

3 replies

Seconding this. I’m trying to find a legacy file from a couple of years ago. I have the exact date of an export from that file, so I know roughly when to look, but sorting through a years worth of files just to find one seems like something I shouldn’t need to do.


KennLucas
  • 220 replies
  • July 31, 2024

Reclassify this as a feature request and we will all upvote it!


Poseidon
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  • 3 replies
  • August 4, 2024

Hello @Isaac_Sonnenburg and @KennLucas ,
Thank you for your feedback! I created the post:

Display the Creation Date of a file easily - Share an idea - Figma Community Forum

Please vote for it!
It will become visible to the community. Thank you!


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