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Aalok_Trivedi
January 29, 2021

Option to NOT create subfolders when exporting assets

  • January 29, 2021
  • 37 replies
  • 10271 views

It really annoys me that Figma automatically creates subfolders when you export an element that’s inside a component and has a ‘/’ naming convention. I always have to go back into the folder and delete the folders or rename everything. It would be great to have a simple checkbox toggle in the exports panel to enable/disable creating subfolders, similar to Illustrator.

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37 replies

David_Cuesta
January 29, 2021

Here here!

Lishay
January 30, 2021

Little but great suggestion, voted!

kolyba
New Participant
January 30, 2021

Yes! I hate it when Figma does this

Chase_Stubblefield
August 3, 2021

please add this

Oleksandr_Hulak
August 5, 2021

true, those subfolders are annoying

August 5, 2021

Fully agree! Being allowed to choose NOT to auto-create subfolders would be amazing and save me time and hassle on a regular basis. Thank you for considering this!

Patrick_Perkins
August 24, 2021

Oh my god PLEASE. It’s so annoying—just put the files where I asked figma to put them

Ryan16
New Member
September 28, 2021

this issue just caused me a big pain when trying to quickly export for a presentation. big +1 to this request.

Marcel_Schulz
September 29, 2021

I can’t state just how annoying this is. Exported files will just not “show up” where you told it to export. Instead you have to figure out which folder it thought it should go, open Finder individually and stupidly navigate there. It’s just so annoying.

Michael_Dusing
New Participant
December 2, 2021

Yes, this. So annoying when the exported screens or assets are nested in 3 or 4 folders.

- Michael Dusing; COO @ Design Like You Mean It