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Josh
Former Community Manager
June 3, 2024

Drafts are changing—here’s what you need to know

  • June 3, 2024
  • 63 replies
  • 9827 views

For users on a Starter or Professional team, we’re relocating where your drafts live. Starting this week, you’ll be asked to move your drafts into a team space.

If you’re on a Starter or Pro team, here’s what to expect:

  • Your drafts are now in a space called “Drafts to move.”
  • You can move your drafts at once into the appropriate teams—or create a free Starter team for all your drafts.
  • When you move your drafts to a team, they will still be private.
  • You will still be able to create and edit drafts free of charge.
  • You may not see this prompt immediately, as we’ll be rolling out this update over the next few days.

Check out the video, below, for a walk-through of this update.

You can read more about this change here on our blog and in our help center

    63 replies

    Dan_Dineen
    New Member
    June 17, 2024

    Hi there 🙂

    I have two Figma accounts - One for personal use and one for work. Both accounts are set up with different emails addresses.

    Although I can see both accounts in Figma I’m not able to move drafts from the work account to my personal one. I’m only given the option to move the drafts to any of the teams under the currently active ‘Work’ account. Can I really not move my drafts between accounts?

    Kevin_Johnsun
    June 17, 2024

    i believe you can move files between different teams in the same account, but you can’t move files between different accounts. Check this: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038511573-Move-a-file
    Your best option is to save your files locally and import them

    Chao-Ling_Chyou
    June 19, 2024

    I have same situation. Only more confused after I scrolled down the information in Figma.

    June 19, 2024

    Damn alright, I understand now… This is all sad news 😦
    But I still don’t understand why we can’t have favorite files accessible throughout all the teams, it is very not convenient to have to have to enter a team to access a favorite (=important/regularly used) file.

    Marta19
    June 21, 2024

    I understand you want to make money, i thought the whole reason of not going with Adobe was partially that –only goal of monetizing–, but I see that in the end Figma is turning into the same.

    Really disappointed that Design is not empowered any more. People need drafts, don’t limit those!

    Shogo_Tsuruda
    New Member
    June 24, 2024

    I’m ok with the change on where drafts live, but can you bring back the sidebar layout without the dropdown for team select?
    As a freelancer working with multiple clients at once, it’s very annoying having to open the massive team dropdown 10+ times a day to switch between the files I’m working on.
    I hope all the starred files show up in once place no matter what team the file lives in.
    This is a 8/10 level pain for me.

    June 26, 2024

    hi everyone! i’ve been cleaning my drafts from the “drafts to move” section, created a new team, and suddenly the files are not there, and there’s no trash folder either. they’re just gone! (I’m on a Starter plan) what do I do?

    hainena
    New Member
    June 26, 2024

    The new team you created should have a Drafts section on the left. Do you see that? Also, do they show up in your Recents section?

    It’s very, very frustrating

    June 26, 2024

    How do we get support if we are on a paid plan? I put in a ticket a few days ago, and only got an AI bot response with some articles to look at, which didn’t answer my questions about Teams and Drafts. I responded with my Team name and haven’t heard a peep back from support. This is holding me up on starting a project.

    Josh
    JoshAuthor
    Former Community Manager
    June 26, 2024

    Hey Holly, I was able to find your ticket and flagged it with the team. Someone should be reaching out soon!