Finding Missing Library components/styles

Seconded, this is difficult. The library publish dialog tells me the name of what’s about to be pushed, but nothing about it like when it was changed or even where it’s located (am I the only designer whose library spans multiple pages?).

Nope that’s a common practice I’ve seen. A page for each component I take it? We also have a dedicated file just for Styles.

I found another plugin called Find / Focus that I used to search for the name of the rogue instance, on each page!

But now I have one rogue style that I can’t find. The worst part is it’s called “White”, yet I went page by page using Selection Colors and didn’t see any called that.

I did see some that were named “white” with a lower case. Detached those but still showing. I’ll have to dig more and find a plugin that can find all styles being used in a file.

I just thought of something (added to my post at the top under Suggestions) - If we could manually force a match (find a component or style we want to swap) instead of Figma trying to auto-match it or run into the None found, that could solve this problem too.

Just wanted to chime in that this is causing issues for us as well. Mostly with our OCD but it would be nice to be able to diagnose this easier.

Yeah, the yellow icon probably doesn’t help with that 😅

On the “Missing Library” panel I would like to be able to double click on the component and/or style and Figma take me to where that component or style is being used. Sometimes a library is deleted or an item is copied from another non-connected library and I would like to just unlink these components and styles quickly. Looking for them in a multipage project with hundreds of screens is very time consuming and painful.

I am going through the exact same thing right now. Have absolutely scoured my file and can’t find it. So frustrating. This functionality exists currently in the color panel with the “target” icon.

Also, not being able to swap library components that aren’t named the EXACT same is frustrating.

EDIT: Here is a more detailed thread: Missing Library feature suggestion

I’m thinking hidden layers might be causing this issue as well since it is displaying a broken image thumbnail for the single remaining color style that is missing. With a file that is 10 pages deep with hundreds of components it’s maddening.

Yeah, I noticed that at least one of my missing instances was hidden.

Thankfully, I found this plugin called Find / Focus, that I could run a search for on every page. But if you have tons of pages, I could see that getting annoying quick (but better than nothing for now.) Try it out, see if it helps.

For missing Styles, you might need another plugin (I’m sure there’s one you can leverage to find styles, colors, etc.)