Sketch "Replace Library" new feature not working, & "find and replace"

Hi all,

This issue is happening on the MAC app, but I’m not sure if this is an issue elsewhere. This also seems to have broken a number of Plugins that used to do the same thing, and functioned well.

strong textFind and Replace Color:strong text

Sketch has “find and replace color” This was, as of base 100 build, replacing the color of linked library instances on the design files of my library users. That stopped working.

Even detaching all components will not update the colors.

Either the tool doesn’t recognize that there are color variables and disables the color picker in the find and replace modal, or it shows the modal, allows me to choose the color to find and the color to replace it with - and then… POOF nothing changes.

From what I can tell, the tool seems to not understand that the Instances from a Linked Library have colors. It just doesn’t seem to recognize them, and there for won’t update them.

strong textLibrary Replacer:strong text

This would be an amazing tool… if it worked. The tool suffered the same issues above. The libraries are the exact same naming conventions, exact same components, just different colors. When doing a “replace library with another library” nothing happens.

I get a message saying that “X-Number of components have been updated”… but nothing has been updated.

strong textSummation:strong text
I don’t know what is wrong with it. It isn’t working and this has been a nightmare for our team. It’s made our work incredibly hard.

Does ANYONE have any idea how to fix this?

Hi Jon,

Welcome to the forum! And thank you for taking the time to report this.

I tested Find and replace color and Replace Library and they are working as expected. But I suspect I’m missing something and your documents and guidance will be of great help for identifying what’s going on.

And about the last part, can you clarify what do you refer to when you mention “Summation”

It’s not clear to me to which feature you’re referring to here, my apologies

You can share your sample documents to our support email: productsupport@sketch.com

Many thanks in advance and looking forward to start troubleshooting this one for you :raised_hands:

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