Easy way to restore deleted variable collections

Hey @Kasper_Vervliet - I slightly modified your topic title to make it easier for others to find, and noted your feedback.

As a workaround in the meantime, you can use version history to restore a previous version of your file to bring back the collection[s] that were deleted.

I have the same issue and unfortunately restoring previous versions of the file don’t recover deleted variables for me.

I’d recommend reaching out to support (if you haven’t already) – this will need intervention that can’t be provided via the forum, unfortunately.

You can reach out to them here:

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Hi there,
we have the same issue here. Also restoring via file history does not work.
Strange thing is, that we cannot even restore variable collection from open branches (so keeping the color-variables that are still in the branch)… while updating from master, Figma is removing the variables in the branch, too, although we defined “keep from branch” … 😦

I’ve also reached out to support, but unfortunately haven’t got a reply yet.

hi, me also got the same issue. Did you get answer?

Hi,
actually only that they’ll further investigate.
Hence we had to recreate all variables manually and re-link them to our components 😦

We had the same issue but managed to restore them via Version History, did you try that?
Ours where still in a WIP process so they where not pulblished yet so maybe that’s why we managed to restore via version history. Hope we get some answers on why it happened.

Just had this issue - lookng through version history did not work. It really feels like somewhere where a: “are you sure you want to delete?” would work. Inadvertently deleted a lengthy collection and will now need to add my entire colour palette back in 😞