Copy comments when duplicating a page, duplicating a project, manually copy-pasting frames, etc

Sometimes it would be useful to be able to duplicate a file with comments. Personally, I would use this when incorporating comments from submitters, and I would also like to leave them the original comments file.

Right now I have to have two windows open. The first with a copy of the file, the second with the comments.

If this topic already exists, please close it and let me know.

Overview:

“Duplicating” pages across design files can only be done by copying and pasting. This loses comments and the ability to keep master components.

Although Figma has a “Move to Project” function, it also needs to have a “Copy to Design File” function.

It would be extremely helpful to be able to copy pages into different files.

Any update on this? I also struggle with sacrificing comments due to memory shortages.

Our small team could also use this when reorganizing files. Sometimes we end up with documents that grew to too many pages. We can either deal with load times and component updates dragging on and ruining multiple pages, or we accept that we will lose all the comments that are really important for historical context and decisions. We have to save the content in the original doc if there are important historical comments, which completely defeats the purpose of splitting the file in the first place.

This is needed, please

In our org this is a big issues

We really need this functionality to avoid losing comment history when duplicating files!

I use pages to contain versions for very large feature explorations. My “Project” file gets bogged down very quickly because of the scale of my components, so I typically create an “[ARCHIVE] Project” file to accompany each project file at this point just to keep the memory usage as low as possible.

Each version contains multiple iterations, concept explorations, prototypes, contextual conversations, decision making points, counter-factuals, etc… The comments associated with deprecated / archived projects are critical to understanding the overall progression of an active project, along with its arc of design direction.

Currently, I manually copy+delete comments from active files and paste them to archive files. It is beyond tedious. Comments often feel like a second-class feature in Figma, and even this requested enhancement would be a huge increase in my QoL as a product designer.

adding a comment here to quantify the urgency of the need to be able to transfer comments between files 🙏

+1 Why wasn’t that already implemented? It’s over 2 years! It’s such an essential feature. Not even duplicating a whole file copys the comments.