Moving main components

Learn how to move main from one file to another without breaking links to instances.

[DanRobertWood]

This feature is a lifesaver, we tried so many plugins to achieve this when our component library hit max memory and we needed to break it up. This is AWESOME, thank you so much.

[nicoletadrobota]

I'm so happy! I'm covering my colleague who maintains the DS & the thought of messing things around seemed so scary:)) .I moved all components, nothing broke, everything went smoothly. Thank you, you are amazing!! x

[warrencrawfordart]

Mate, you are an absolute star. Fixed my Manic Monday for me, I was having a nightmare with this. Cheers.

[moheri]

Everything worked up until 1:16 in the video. I don't get the dropdown options and idk why.

[danparks]

So helpful. Been going crazy horse trying to do this!

[radulica]

Lately I keep getting this bug where I would move a component to a new file, publish the new file just like you've shown, and the original file will not get an update saying it's been moved. Restarting the file and even exiting Figma doesn't do anything. Sometimes moving components just simply fails.

[rafaelschwenk]

Thank you so much! The project I'm working now has grown and I need to create separate files to organize everything correctly. But it wasn't working because I wasn't publishing anything. It's all properly linked now, thanks!

[Cholipop]

I was just going to play some music and my YT feed recommended this awesome video 🚀Thankss!

[KunalSharma-txbg]

Is it possible to do the same for the Typography and colors?

[ajaymanath]

thi only works in apple?
i cant find the cut option
in edit menu

[scrednour]

Awesome tip! [spends afternoon cleaning up figma files]. Thank you!

[thebrunoserge]

1. On the file containing components you need to move to Design System/Library, press Option + 3, Alt + 3 to open Libraries window. Click "Publish" under "Current file".
2. Uncheck all, re-check only the component(s) to be moved. Click "Publish"
3. Select component(s). Edit > Cut, or Command + X, Ctrl + X
4. Open Design System Library file, Paste (Edit > Paste, Command + V, Ctrl + V)
5. In the bottom-right "To move pasted components to this file, publish a library update" dialog that shows up, click " Publish..."
6. Select "Move to this file" in the corresponding dropdown(s), click "Publish"
7. Original files should receive an update on the bottom-right with the option to Review. If this does not happen, select component on original file, check the right sidebar under Design tab for component details, and click the circular arrows " Update available" button, then select "Review update".
8. Click "Update all", and verify that components have been updated based on the parent.

[protasbox]

How did you scale the highlighted area at 8 seconds? I've looked through all the hotkeys, but I can't find a way to

[carolinafernandez]

What about all the instances that have overrides?

[vincentaboughazale]

Hey, I had an issue after I did this process, I undid everything to show it again to my colleague but looks like the undo broke everything and I couldn't do this linking process again and had to link them manually. Any idea why could this happen?

[martinkuca]

Nice, I've wanted to do this so many times. Thanks!

[kealegard]

This absolutely saved my day!! Thank you so much!

[pjonesg]

And how do you create a library? I’m going to need to do this very soon. All my components are local to files.

[danielaoliveira]

Omg finally!! Thank you so much for listening!

[Elusar]

I would've loved this tip one week ago ;p
That's amazing though, thanks for that.