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MC3
MC3
New Member
September 22, 2026

Version history is unusable

I lost a key edit to a file, undo wouldn’t recover it. I found it in the version history.

  1. Hard to find
  2. Couldn’t restore the edit. I found it, but I couldn’t copy and paste it. I hit recover, but it would glitch up and go back to the other edit when I closed it.

End result, I had to finish a rush item by cropping a screenshot, not by restoring it in Figma, even though I could see the edit I wanted to restore and tried for 15 minutes.

Serious concerns about stability of product after seeing this.

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    adamsmasher
    Figmate
    adamsmasher
    Figmate
    September 23, 2026

    That sounds like a frustrating experience for you, ​@MC3, especially since you had to finish a rush item from a screenshot. I can understand why that would affect your confidence in the file.

     

    Was this a Figma Design file, and were you using the desktop app or a browser? When you clicked “recover,” did you choose Restore this version from the version’s menu, or were you viewing the older version and then closing version history? Knowing what appeared immediately after that click would help narrow down where something went wrong.

     

    Getting back to actually restoring from version history, you could also use Duplicate on that version to give you a separate, editable file to recover the work from - I wanted to highlight that so you know it’s an option in the future. 

      MC3
      MC3Author
      New Member
      September 23, 2026

      Was this a Figma Design file, and were you using the desktop app or a browser?

      Desktop
       

      When you clicked “recover,” did you choose Restore this version from the version’s menu, or were you viewing the older version and then closing version history? Knowing what appeared immediately after that click would help narrow down where something went wrong.

      I found Restore this version menu option and tried it several times, it was making different icons on the history and listing a restore point.  I would then navigate to that version, it was a big file, so I would wait. Then it would load and I could see it. But I couldn’t copy it. When I clicked into the canvas, it would revert to the old version. It worked differently a few times, I restored several versions and tried hitting redo and undo as well before all that. An agent made the edits but it bypassed the undo sequence (it seems) because I couldn’t undo it. I caught it right away.

      It was really odd, felt like a glitch in the app.

      adamsmasher
      Figmate
      adamsmasher
      Figmate
      September 24, 2026

      Thanks for explaining what happened. Seeing the edit load and then switch away when you clicked the canvas sounds frustrating, especially since it’s a large file and you’d already tried several versions.

       

      I’d like to get the file-specific behavior investigated. Could you confirm whether this was a Figma Design file, whether you’re on mac OS or Windows (and what version), and whether the edits came from Figma’s agent chat or another agent? If you remember, was the version history panel still open when the canvas switched back?

       

      With a bit more info, I’m going to help create a ticket for you with our Technical Quality team. If you have a moment, a short recording would help as well - I understand if you can’t reproduce it or have time, though. Thanks! 

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