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Replacing an image/video by copy/paste from desktop now renames the layer?

  • August 28, 2024
  • 5 replies
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Stephen_Moy1

If I use “ctrl + c” to copy a file from my computer, then select the layer in Figma I want to update and use “ctrl +v” to paste/replace it. The layer will inherit the name of the file on the desktop. So if it’s “IMG_ASD123” the Figma layer changes to be named this instead of what it was labeled in Figma.

Is this a recent update? It never used to happen?

It’s a bit frustrating as I used to name my layers “Asset (3:4)” or whatnot to indicate to dev what the ratio of the asset was but now I need to keep renaming it everytime I copy/paste a new assets onto the layer.

Is there a way to disable this at all?

Thanks in advance! 🙂

5 replies

Elad_Rahmin
  • New Member
  • 1 reply
  • October 8, 2024

Noticed it too, and this is a very annoying change.

  1. I pasted an image onto a main component’s fill and it changed my component’s name to be called image.
  2. I pasted an image to a variant, and all the props names got ruined because now the variant was renames to image.
    image
    Took me a long while to understand why it happened.
    And then I saw anywhere I pasted an image I now had tons of components/layers called image, when I specifically gave them descriptive names before.

dvaliao
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 4603 replies
  • October 9, 2024

Hey All, thanks for flagging this, @Stephen_Moy1!

Apologies also for the delayed reply. I was able to repro on my end, so I’ve flagged this over to the team to investigate.

I’ll provide an update as soon as I can.


Stephen_Moy1
  • Author
  • New Member
  • 13 replies
  • October 9, 2024

Amazing @dvaliao, it’s a strange one - I thought it was just be going mad ha.

Thanks for flagging to the team to investigate.

All the best,
Steve


Phu_Nguyen
  • Active Member
  • 37 replies
  • December 5, 2024

It’s 2 month and still see this happening. I have just see the issue in my file. Super frustrating.


dvaliao
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 4603 replies
  • December 5, 2024

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