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Team locked over Starter limits - Move file and Trash actions silently fail

  • July 4, 2026
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Basit Channa

After downgrading from Professional to Starter, my team "Native Brains" ([redacted by moderator to remove personal information]) is locked for being over Starter limits: 137 Figma Design files across 3 projects (NB Projects, Design Systems & UI Kits, Portfolio), when Starter only allows 3 files in 1 project.

 

I understand the fix is to move or trash files to get under the limit. But every action I try silently fails:

 

1) Right-click > Move file... - the destination picker (Suggested/Starred/All tabs) never loads. Infinite spinner even after 10+ seconds. Tried on a single file and on 50 files selected at once, tried after a hard refresh, same result every time.

 

2) Drag a file onto Drafts in the sidebar - shows a confirmation "Do you want to move this file?", I click "Yes, move it", but after reloading the page the file is still in the original project and Drafts is unchanged.

 

3) Drag a file onto Trash - no confirmation even appears, and checking the Trash folder afterward shows nothing new was trashed.

 

I tested this repeatedly on multiple files, after full page reloads, and it is consistently a no-op. It looks like the locked state is blocking the exact actions that are supposed to unlock it.

 

Could someone help manually reorganize or unlock team [redacted by moderator to remove personal information] so it works on the Starter plan again? I'd rather not pay to temporarily reactivate Professional just to work around this. Happy to share screen recordings or more detail if useful.

 

1 reply

adamsmasher
Figmate
  • Figmate
  • July 5, 2026

Hi, ​@Basit Channa! It looks like you’ve tried pretty thoroughly to reduce the number of files for the Starter team so you can edit.

 

Are you using the Desktop app or a web browser? If you’re using the app, can you try switching to the browser or vice versa? I want to rule out that it’s an issue with one or the other. It would also be helpful to have a screen recording if you continue have trouble - I can escalate this to our support team and include that with it. One other question: do you recall if you had any trouble moving files to drafts or other teams prior to downgrading? Thank you!