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LouiseMiller31
LouiseMiller31
Inspiring
June 7, 2021
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Is it Possible to transfer ownership of an XD file?

  • June 7, 2021
  • 9 replies
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I am the owner of our design system master file built in Adobe XD. I am leaving the company and we need to transfer ownership to one of my collaborators so they can publish updates. I have co-editing enabled but it appears only I can push the share updates. Once the company deletes my adobe account will my team be able to take ownership, manage the file and, publish updates? 

 

 

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    Correct answer Rishabh_Tiwari

    Hi there,

     

    Sorry for the delay in response. As of now, we don't have a time frame by when this would be available, having said that, let me assure you that I'll share your feedback with the Engineering and product management team and you can do that too by voting for this request to add voice to the feature https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/20173018-transfer-prototypes-and-design-specs-from-one-adob

     

    Feel free to reach out if you have any other questions or feedback.

     

    Regards

    Rishabh

    9 replies

    ArtikelSwintWebDev
    ArtikelSwintWebDev
    Participant
    August 19, 2024

    We are in 2024 and this feauture is still not available. Our senior designer went on maternity leave and we now have to go to her computer to actualy be able to publish the changes.

    creative explorer
    Community Expert
    creative explorerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 19, 2024

    @ArtikelSwintWebDev I would have saved a local copy to the server or to the back-ups. This way, anyone can update the files. If she is on mat leave, you have no choice. It's really no big deal, unless she deleted the files...and then you need to check with IT to see if their is a back-up around the time she left to retrieve old files that were saed to the server

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    Da3kariS
    Participant
    August 29, 2024

    Dear Support,
        it is not a matter of copying the file to local or re-upload it to my account, the issue will be having 2 files, one with my last edits and the original file. this will lead to more issues of different updates in each version.

    i had a similar issue with my designer, where his account was stopped, and he lost the access to all his work, until i saved all the work locally, then re-upload them to my account and invited him to the projects.

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      oksighner
      Participant
      October 15, 2023

      Absolute nightmare to still not have this feature. I'm at a mid-sized company putting out a product and built an entire design system with multiple flows, and hold the responsibility and pressure of managing ALL links and library updates as both the team and product grow. People in this position get put in hot lava to be "on call" while OOO or interrupt their own projects to push updates. Then also risk an earful once there are several versions of links of the same flow because teammates have to make temp links from local copies as a last resort (which leads to a whole other branch of cross-functional nightmares).


      Forbid that anyone leave the company and have to communicate to hundreds of devs that those links aren't active anymore and designers have to link files to new a library. And the weight of these pressures for any design lead trying to keep their efforts and jobs afloat. 

       

      Adobe, PLZ fix this it's driving us insane.

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        eznicol
        Participant
        October 10, 2023

        Actually insanity that, after 2 years of this being posted, there is still no solution to transfer Ownership. 

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          Justin31712171734x
          Participant
          August 16, 2023

          If we cannot transfer ownership of an XD file, perhaps a more reasonable request is to 1. no longer limit the updating of prototype links to the owner, and/or 2. for there to be multiple file owners. XD is a great program but will go down as a "if only they..." program without key updates like these.

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            James30164012d5je
            Participant
            July 7, 2023

            We are having the same issue. We also are not able to have invited users to the library edit the document even when invited with editing permissions. We did come up with a work around by inviting the users to "Collaborate" in the document. Which is a seperate invitation. The collaborating users can make edits and also push them to be updated. On a side note when on the phone with Adobe trying to figure this out Adobe told us our work around would not work. IT DOES WORK. We still have not figured out how to transfer ownerhip so I will keep checking back on this thread. 

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              lynnt5301984
              Participant
              May 19, 2023

              Just wanted to jump in here and echo what everyone is saying:

              This is ridiculous and needs to be rectified asap!

              I don't understand how this was not implemented to start and it's now been at least 2 years since it was raised and that functionality still doesn't exist? This basically makes XD unusable for teams. You've always got people leaving jobs, sick, on holidays etc so for publish rights to be restricted to one person with not even any way to transfer ownership is insane. When you share a file with someone, why can't there be an option to assign them publish rights?

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                Lumen-Rebecca25791387l6lg
                Participant
                November 8, 2022

                !! Please prioritize transferring or sharing permissions to update already generated links to view files in a browser. !!

                Not having this capability is totally impractical and a real pain point for designers, developers, prioject teams, project managers, and executives. EVERYONE!!!! Please fix this asap.

                No transfer/reassignment of file admin/ownership permissions poses problems when a person leaves the company. I am working for a large corporation where the previous creator and owner of a mission critical XD file left the company. I took over the UX design aspects of the project but cannot update any of the previous employees XD file links that have been shared throughout the entire company downstream/upstream and with contracted dev services. I cannot just create a copy of a file and generate a new link when the old original link exists in multuple locations and some unknown... I cannot access these and change out the link to a new one.

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                  Morgan28327747zs50
                  Participant
                  February 20, 2023

                  Please, I'm going away on vacation for a month and not having this feature is a nightmare

                  My team member/s now have to create new links for existing projects which just confuses the hell out of stakeholders 😞

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                    Amjad@Spacewell
                    Participant
                    July 13, 2022

                    Any update in this regard in 2022? 

                      Rishabh_Tiwari
                      Community Manager
                      Rishabh_TiwariCommunity Manager
                      Community Manager
                      July 13, 2022

                      Hi @Amjad@Spacewell ,

                       

                      We're so sorry for the delay. I am afraid, as of now, we don't have the time frame by when this feature would be available. Having said that let me assure you, that I'll share your feedback with the Engineering team.

                       

                      Regards

                      Rishabh

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                        Ricky5E06
                        Participant
                        July 17, 2022

                        I would also like to see this feature added. 

                          Rishabh_Tiwari
                          Community Manager
                          Rishabh_TiwariCommunity Manager
                          Community Manager
                          June 7, 2021

                          Hi Louise, 

                           

                          Thanks for reaching out. I found a similar discussion on the community which you can refer to here https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-xd/transfer-ownership-of-a-file-to-a-different-account/m-p/11060492#M27302 

                           

                          Let us know if this helps or if you need any further assistance.

                           

                          Regards

                          Rishabh

                          LouiseMiller31
                          LouiseMiller31Author
                          Inspiring
                          June 7, 2021

                          Thank you, It seems like based on the response this is not currently possible? The team will need to maintain the links to the original components as they are used as the basis of our design system. The share links are being used by our dev team to build out our website. I realize this is not your fault but this is a serious issue for enterprise teams. People leave companies all the time and it really must be made a feature to easily transfer ownership when this occurs. Is the only workaround that they maintain my adobe account after I leave? 

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                            GrambyMakesArt
                            Participant
                            March 23, 2022

                            Hi, Louise. I'm a designer for a large company and find myself in a similar situation. I'm leaving the company at the end of the week, but have a lot of assets that I've created in XD that I need to be able to transfer to my coworkers. What I've ended up doing is, in addition to saving the libraries to the Cloud, I also saved a local copy and uploaded it to our shared drive. This way they'll at least have something they can use as a backup if something happens with the Cloud versions. I'll let you know how this goes, but yeah, it's a little silly that this hasn't already been addressed. I mean, it's not like it's a new issue or anything.

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