Can't remove accidental image from library color

Through some chain of events that I don’t remember exactly, I added an image to a color style definition in our shared library when I was experimenting with a design. But when I go to edit the style definition in the library, the image is not there (and I haven’t heard any other library users complain about it), so the problem must exist in my own file, but I can’t find how to undo it?

Below is the style as applied in my file. As you can see, it has a color and an image, and I cannot edit it from this file since it comes from the library. Every element that uses this color in my file now looks like this.

But when I click ‘edit in library’, everything there is fine? I’ve tried removing and re-adding the library to this file, but that didn’t solve it.

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You need to publish the changes you made to the library and then accept these changes in this file.

Maybe I wasnt clear in my description: there are no changes to the library. I somehow ‘contaminated’ a library style, but the library itself has no changes. I’m not even allowed to edit the library at all. But in my own file, when I use that green color from the library, it has an image included that’s not supposed to be there, and I don’t understand where that is stored or how to fix it.

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Hi @timh probably it might be helpful to take a look at your file. Would you mind sharing it with us?

Hi Yasuhiko, I’d love to, but the file is in a private Figma organization that would need authorization from the admin unfortunately. In the meantime I tried making a new draft file, adding the library there, and copying an artboard over to the new file, and then the bug is gone, so I might just move everything over.

@timh

Thanks for the reply! Them could you reach out directly to the support team with a copy of your file: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. You can get further support from our support team.

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Thanks,
Toku

I’m having the same issue. Breaking the style in the working file shows that there’s a random image fill layer. But, when I check that style in the library source file, there’s no image fill layer.

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Just submitted a bug report for this issue^

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I’m having same issue. Is it resolved?

Their suggestion was: As our first steps, can you try making a ‘silent’ change to the color style in the library file and then publishing and accepting the update? To do this, select the color style and make a minor change like adding or editing a description and then publish and accept the update.

My fix was: The “quiet” update worked; not when editing the description (which I tried first), but when temporarily adding a new fill layer to the color style.

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Hey Kailyn, thanks for reporting back, I asked my library admin to perform the same silent update and it worked!

Thanks for the reply! I will definitely try this.