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Search within files response time is extremely long and at times unresponsive

  • July 16, 2026
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Cyryl Kwaśniewski

Search response time is extremely long and often times renders Figma unresponsive. I can't cancel the serach, have to close and reopen files.

This is extremely frustrating. I'm working in an organization of 50+ our designers with a quite an extensive design system.

There are a lot of files that have to be searched for preceding patterns. The type of patterns that other designers have designed in the past before I joined the projects.

I also have to search a lot through existing design system documentation which is made of Figma slides and Figma template and component libraries.

Searching through these files is extremely painful. The reason is it takes so much Time to load search results.

At times the search just doesn't respond at all. I have to close the file, then reopen the file and then try to search again. That’s not only is very distracting, but also takes a huge lot of time.

A simple text search shouldn't take that much time.

1 reply

Gayani_S
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • July 17, 2026

Hey ​@Cyryl Kwaśniewski, thanks for reaching out!

It's a pattern we've seen before with search inside files that have a lot of components, styles, or design system documentation. Search can end up stuck loading for a long time, sometimes to the point where the file locks up.

To help narrow this down, could you let me know:

  1. Are you seeing this in the browser, the desktop app, or both? If browser, which one?
  2. Is it happening in one specific file (like a particular library or the Slides documentation), or across all of them?

If you're able to, a quick screen recording of the search hanging would also help a lot.

Once I have your answers, I'll get a support ticket started for you. From there, you'll be able to share the affected file directly on the ticket so the team can take a closer look.

 

Thank you for your help!