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Jeff Chamberlain
New Member
February 6, 2025
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'You can’t access this resource' error

  • February 6, 2025
  • 16 replies
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I’m signed in under my personal email in standard account. I have tabs currently open on my desktop that I can’t access. Some are drafts some are saved. I used to be associated with a previous company (Accolade) but my personal email would have not been used for that figma account. Some of the drafts that I’ve recently started are also not displaying in ‘recent files’. Please advise.

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Celine_
Figmate
Community Support
June 3, 2025

Hey ​@ibrahim_azzoug , can you please also reach out to the support team as Denise mentioned? You can submit a bug report here.

Please use your Figma email account, and in the form, please include a link to this file or name of the file. This will help our support team to locate the file and see what may have happened. Thank you!
 

JuliaForti
New Member
September 15, 2025

Hi!

Few days ago i was working ona draft project in desktop Figma app and later on when i finished i closed the window. Today i tried to find the file and it was gone.. The name of the file is ‘Semplice website’. After some time i went to three dots on the right side of the main window to Recently closed files and there it was. When i open it, there is an information:

You can’t access this resource
Contact the owner, an admin, or support for assistance.

I tried to copy and open link and ask for request access to it but i didn’t get any email with this request
Can i get my files back somehow?

Best regards, Julia

 

Gayani_S
Figmate
Community Support
September 17, 2025

Hey ​@JuliaForti, thanks for sharing the details you’ve tried so far.

Do you happen to still have the file link for the missing draft? That would be the most helpful way for us to investigate further. You might be able to find it by checking:

  • Your web browser’s history

  • Any past conversations where you may have shared the file

  • The File > Recently Closed menu in the desktop app

If you can share the URL(s), I’ll take a closer look and see what can be done. If you don’t want to share this publicly, feel free to send me a DM and let me know under this post. 

 

Thanks, 

Gayani 

JuliaForti
New Member
September 17, 2025
JuliaForti
New Member
September 23, 2025

Hi, it’s been a few days and i still don’t have the access to the file. Could somebody help me please? 

djv
Figmate
Community Support
September 25, 2025

Hi ​@JuliaForti, thanks for following up and apologies for the delayed reply! 

Gayani, who was helping you out with this has been out of the office, but I’d be happy to pick up where she left off. 

From what I can see on my end, while you are the file’s creator, you are also currently only a Guest viewer for the file you linked. The file has inherited permissions from the team that it currently has been moved into: Super girls. You’ll want to reach out to the team Admin, Oliwia, directly to have them share edit access to the file or have the file moved back into the original team, where you originally had edit access.