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ChiPT
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January 28, 2026
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Figma Make – Failed to download code files

  • January 28, 2026
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Hi,
I’m using Figma Make and I keep getting this error:
“Failed to download code files. Check errors and try again.”

The preview is generated successfully, but when I click Download code, it fails.

Has anyone encountered this issue before?
What are the common causes and how can I fix it?

 

Best answer by adamsmasher

Thanks for your post, ​@Manikandan D. There are different reasons why that might happen, though that error message doesn’t make it too clear what error is actually preventing you from downloading your files.

 

I see that you’ve submitted a ticket to our support team about this today, so you should hear back soon regarding the request. I also see you shared your file already - that’s great! Troubleshooting this particular issue usually requires looking at the Make file itself, so that’ll help our team troubleshoot this more quickly for you. For anyone else that might run into the same issue, visiting our Help Center and submitting a bug report is the best approach.

 

In the meantime, let me know if there’s anything else I can help with.

23 replies

Kurt_Adam20
New Member
February 4, 2026

Same issue here but the thing is it works in another figma make file 

Tedford_Chan
New Member
February 12, 2026

Running into the same issue here as well

 

Gayani_S
Figmate
Community Support
February 13, 2026

Hey everyone, thanks for flagging this! 

I’ve shared this internally with the team, to ask what might cause this. I’ll update this thread as soon as I have more information. Thanks for your patience while we look into it.

New Member
February 18, 2026

Hey everyone, thanks for flagging this! 

I’ve shared this internally with the team, to ask what might cause this. I’ll update this thread as soon as I have more information. Thanks for your patience while we look into it.


Still getting the error for me too.

Since it’s between weeks from the original report with no response, and there’s zero content anywhere else for this error, I figured I’d share that you can download the files one by one by right-clicking on them and downloading. Don’t try to download the folders, that doesn’t work either for some reason. Really tedious but let me continue the project and break my files out of error-jail.

Gayani_S
Figmate
Community Support
February 19, 2026

Hey ​@Outlier, I appreciate you sharing the workaround. 

I checked in with the team, and so far they haven’t been able to reproduce the issue on their end. To properly investigate this with Engineering, we’ll need an example where the issue is actively happening.

If you’re open to it, could you please share your impacted Make file with support-share@figma.com and grant “Can View” access? That will allow us to attempt to reproduce the issue in your specific file and dig into what might be causing the download failure.

 

 

Thank you for your help! 

Mr Nano
New Member
March 13, 2026

Same to me 

How i solve it 

djv
Figmate
Community Support
March 13, 2026

Hi ​@Mr Nano, thanks for chiming in here! 

As mentioned above by ​@Gayani_S, to investigate this further with our Engineering team, we need an example where the issue is happening consistently. If you’re able to share a URL link to your impacted Make file with support-share@figma.com and grant “Can View” access that will allow us to attempt to reproduce the issue in your specific file and dig into what might be causing the download failure.

Please provide the URL link here, and we can help you get connected with our team to work towards a solution.

Steve Hurth
March 13, 2026

Same here - nor can I push to a github repository. They both fail.

Steve Hurth
March 15, 2026

Same here - nor can I push to a github repository. They both fail.

I found that I am able to download all the folders/files manually from the Figma Desktop app. With that said, there are hidden files, like vite config, package.json, etc., so it leads me to believe it has something to do with those? 

muhammad.tariq.psw
New Participant
April 1, 2026

I am facing the same issue. I have shared the file with support-share@figma.com and grant “Can View” access. 
Do i also need to provide the URL for figma make file. I am also not able to push it to GIt repo.