Finding Missing Library components/styles

Great idea! That workaround solved my ghost styles issues (although I don’t know if there are still somewhere in my file…)

Thanks Florian!

Some questions, and thanks for the suggestion! I’ll have to try it out later:

1. Step 2 - You’re making this duplicate style in another file, yes? For example, making this duplicate style in your main library?
2. Step 3 - “Go back to the design file…” Do you mean the one with the new local style, or the main library file?

1. Yes. In the end you need to have the same style in two different locations. In the file where the missing library error appears and in a different file which is linked as library.

2. Back to the design file in which the missing library error is shown.

The multi-step workaround is very time consuming if you have tens of styles missing.
Looks like these libraries linking related features have multiple serious bugs and it’s overlooked by Figma planning team. Figma may be too big now and focusing more on adding new features rather than making existing features better.

@Florian_Bredl Thank you so much! It does solve my bothering “Ghost” library issue.

To be honest it’s an edge case and doesn’t impact productivity or workflow. It’s fair to not be a high priority issue.

Hi everyone, I’m also having a problem with this too. Long story short I have a design system file containing several pages which I am currently working on. In my library it is saying I am missing 3 colour styles. These styles originate from another design system and I know exactly where they are located in this other system. My guess is they somehow got copied over from this other design system to the one I am working on right now. The problem is I cannot find these ‘rogue’ colour styles in my design system even after scouring every single page and element. Figma doesn’t have a ‘find’ option so I cannot find these styles easily. Does anyone know how to get around this issue? All I can think of right now is the solution @Florian_Bredl came up with whereby I replicate these ‘broken’ styles in my design systems current colour library and publish them so I can stop the missing colour styles message. However, this isn’t really the best solution in my opinion because I don’t need these colour styles and what is even more concerning is I don’t know where they are. Any thoughts would be appreciated as this is driving me insane!

I had a lot of those in many files too. Usually, I’ve found those missing styles used in hidden layers. After cleaning them there are no more missing ones 🙂

I also use w few plugins to search & replace styles:

• https://figmamanager.com/
• Unused-Styles-Remover or Hidden-Styles-Remover
• Great Figma Style Organizer which helps to merge and replace color styles and/or replace values with a style (color or type)
• and obviously Figma’s native Swap Library feature

Those used in various configurations helped me clean all missing styles in my files and especially in my libraries.

I stay away from plugins like those. They tend to break things that can cause large sweeping changes. I’ll check out the Hidden Styles Remover at least.

Yep - Seems obvious.