Copy comments from a Figma files to another one while duplicating/copying content/designs

As a researcher (aka I am not the Figma Guru) working with designers in the Figma files. Being able to have a copy of my comments for my records as researcher and pushing duplicate comments for the designer to resolve as they wish to without interfering with my historical copy of why we decided to change the design would be a wonderful product addition!

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Has there been a solution to the copying over of comments along with a file if you copy the file from 1 file to a new file in Figma? Thank you

Hi everyone,
I’m trying to use the API to get file comments and then post them in the same location on another file which is a duplication of the original.
Figma attaches comments in frames to a node_id.
Does anyone know if the new file (the duplicated one) has a different node_id for the frames than the original? if so, how can I post the comments on the new file at the same location, any ideas?

this is a very needed functionality!!! thank you for starting convo! @figma a reply and timeline would be much appreciated on this topic!

This feature has been noted a few times in Figma forums

When consolidating Figma and FigJam files, it is quite a pain for us to not have the comments carried with the objects being copied. I’m sure others feel the same way. I would love to see this on the roadmap as an option (e.g. after pasting, it asks if comments should be included or not).

If anyone finds or creates a plug-in that can copy Figma or FigJam comments, please share it here!

Hey All, thanks for the feedback! We’ll pass this onto our team for the consideration.

It’s absolutely needed we work in a studio file and a client file and and we get the comments on the client file. We need a way to transfer the commend to the studio file .
the reason for having two files in the first place is to not disclose our work on the project between meetings.

just having a copy with comments shortcut would do

I ran into this issue today when moving components from a work file into the design system. My coworker is on leave now so theres some comments she left in the component, I don’t want to delete it so when i tried transferring the component all the comments disappeared. would be helpful if you cut the comment it can be moved to another page or another file. thank you!

I’m chiming in here as this is a huge +1 from our team of 10. Our file has gotten so large and complex and when we want to split pages off, it becomes a choice of if we want to lose context from our comments or not.

I really hope to see this soon, because we’ve been having this issue for at least a year and it would make our Figma experience 10x…

Agree with Mike - our small team often overloads files as well. Comments are essential for our stakeholders, engineers, everyone. Battling memory vs. comments when we encounter this is crazy.

I really need it

I hope this gets added soon. At least allow us to toggle the option to copy comments on demand.

Much needed!

We need a way to transfer the commend to another file.

+1 This would be a huge help for larger teams where comments are spread out across many files and potentially store the responses and interactions of multiple people

Another request for this. As a project grows and we need to start separating pages into different files, comments not being able to be moved is a massive headache.

Sometimes it would be useful to be able to duplicate a file with comments. Personally, I would use this when incorporating comments from submitters, and I would also like to leave them the original comments file.

Right now I have to have two windows open. The first with a copy of the file, the second with the comments.

If this topic already exists, please close it and let me know.

Any update on this? I also struggle with sacrificing comments due to memory shortages.

Our small team could also use this when reorganizing files. Sometimes we end up with documents that grew to too many pages. We can either deal with load times and component updates dragging on and ruining multiple pages, or we accept that we will lose all the comments that are really important for historical context and decisions. We have to save the content in the original doc if there are important historical comments, which completely defeats the purpose of splitting the file in the first place.

This is needed, please

In our org this is a big issues

We really need this functionality to avoid losing comment history when duplicating files!