Reverse a symbol

[mikefrost (Michael)]

I appear to have gone down the wrong track building a whole lot of symbols. Can I reverse it so the interactions remain but its not in a symbol?

[jonathan (Jonathan Deutsch)]

Unfortunately not really, you will need to copy/paste-with-animations to break apart (and that won't capture alternate timelines if they exist). See:

Break apart symbol

Bonjour and thanks for the feedback! There’s a surprising amount of complexity in decomposing symbols back to their parent (aside from undo operations), and I’m not sure we could ever do a great job for this feature unfortunately. Symbols having their own timelines raise plenty of questions on what expected behavior would be for their animations, especially on different timelines - should they be merged or joined? I’m not sure there’s a great answer. The best workaround right now is to enter …

[mikefrost (Michael)]

Thanks Jonathan