help! :(

i’ve been rebuilding the entire design system with design tokens as variables and styles and then made detailed documentations of it all, entering Figma this morning and ALL variables and styles are gone, components and text looks correct and seems to understand that it should reference the variables or styles, but it is all broken trying to view the variable or style, ex for colors it shows a box with the color but no name.

i have tried updating figma, open in browser, regenerating all instances, revert to an earlier version nothing helped.

note, that my Figma project started as an sketch import that i have continued building on top of, i don’t know if this could be the reason that Figma suddenly decided to delete ALL variables and styles in my document :(

even more strange, if i create a new project and copy/past my content over, i now see the design tokens original variable names and typography and color style names, but they don’t exist in the document.

is there anything i can do? and how can i ensure this will not happen again?

ps. i am not linking any libraries