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When Variables was released I created some collections for testing. Since then I settled on a final version but the old deleted collections still appear in the page/layer selection on the right panel. The same is happening to deleted modes.

apparently its a know bug and they are working on it, im having the same problem, I spoke to the PM on Reddit and he said it was W.I.P


Still not fixed and easy to reproduce:



  1. Turn a file with variable modes into a library

  2. Create other file that makes use of this library (e.g. for colors)

  3. Remove one of the modes of the file in step 1

  4. Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

  5. Pain


After lots of experimentation and a number of iterations on a colour system using Variables and Modes I now have lots of orphaned modes supposedly used in a file and being displayed at page level despite the variables no longer existing and not being used/assigned anywhere in the file.


Figma, please clean this up!


@dvaliao happy to share a file and use case


Thanks, @Maciej_Balasinski!


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