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eline.swennen
eline.swennen
April 30, 2024
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Issues with moving Figma components to another library

Hi

I am moving master components from one library to a new one (with a paid teamplan). For most of the components I will get the small pop-up saying “to move pasted components to this library, publish a library update” which will move them correctly.

But with some of the components I don’t get this pop-up and they won’t move correctly, even tho they are published. Causing some links to be broken.

Does anyone else has this problem? Or knows where I can find more info about this?

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    djv
    djvSolution
    Community Support
    May 1, 2024

    Hey @eline.swennen, sorry to hear you’ve been having trouble moving your components to another library!

    Have you been following the process outlined here?

    Figma Learn - Help Center

    For the cut + pasted components that you’re not getting the pop-up, are you getting any notifications to accept the library updates in your original library file?

    Have you tried republishing the library in the original library file, before re-attempting to cut + paste your components to the new library file?

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    djv
    Figmate
    djvSolution
    Community Support
    May 1, 2024

    Hey @eline.swennen, sorry to hear you’ve been having trouble moving your components to another library!

    Have you been following the process outlined here?

    Figma Learn - Help Center

    For the cut + pasted components that you’re not getting the pop-up, are you getting any notifications to accept the library updates in your original library file?

    Have you tried republishing the library in the original library file, before re-attempting to cut + paste your components to the new library file?

    eline.swennen
    eline.swennenAuthor
    May 2, 2024

    Hi, thank you for your help!

    We’ve followed all the steps exactly as described. For most of the components this works perfectly fine (we do get the pop-up and the links are working perfect), but for some components we don’t get a pop-up and links seem to get broken if we try to move them.

    The original library is published. We do want to try to republish the library, but we’re not sure if this will break components?

    Thank you!

      djv
      Figmate
      djv
      Community Support
      May 2, 2024

      Hey @eline.swennen, thanks for the additional context!

      Don’t worry - republishing the library will not break the library connections. Team members can still use instances from an unpublished library. They just won’t receive any updates made to those instances, until it’s republished.

      If republishing doesn’t help, please reach out to the support team directly via this form for help: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

      Be sure to use your Figma account email, include a link to your library file and the new destination file, and share it with support-share@figma.com, so our team can take a closer look.

      Shannon8
      Shannon8
      New Participant
      May 2, 2024

      I am having the same issues and one thing that seemed to help was removing unused properties. It didn’t do the trick for everything, but for some it made it work. Hope that helps… Still looking for a solution for the ones that won’t move still 😅

        djv
        Figmate
        djv
        Community Support
        May 2, 2024

        Thanks for chiming in, @Shannon8!

        eline.swennen
        eline.swennenAuthor
        May 3, 2024

        Thanks a lot for your help, @dvaliao!

        We managed to move all further components without breaking links. So our problem is solved! 😀

          Shannon8
          Shannon8
          New Participant
          May 3, 2024

          Glad things worked out for you! Would you have any tips? I tried to republish the library end resolve broken properties, however it didn’t resolve all my issues 😦

          eline.swennen
          eline.swennenAuthor
          May 3, 2024

          With some components, we had no choice but to break the links 😅 what we noticed was that if a component was built incorrectly, it was sometimes more difficult to move it.

          And after we moved a component correctly, we published the new components and updated it in each file where it was used. We had to repeat this several times (after each transfer) until finally all the links were transferred and nothing broke.
          We also checked each time we had transferred a component to make sure everything was still correct and not broken.

          Hopefully this info will help you a bit!

            djv
            Figmate
            djv
            Community Support
            May 3, 2024

            Glad to hear that, @eline.swennen! Please let us know if you run into any further issue! 🙂

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