# Created an account and lost all Collections and Environments

**URL:** <https://community.postman.com/t/created-an-account-and-lost-all-collections-and-environments/52700>\
**Category:** Help Hub\
**Tags:** collections, scratchpad\
**Created:** [October 2, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/created-an-account-and-lost-all-collections-and-environments/52700 "2023-10-02T17:25:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kanav-bansal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f17d59/32.png) [@kanav-bansal](https://community.postman.com/u/kanav-bansal)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/created-an-account-and-lost-all-collections-and-environments/52700/1 "2023-10-02T17:25:55Z")

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I had been using Postman without an account and had a lot of data in terms of Collections and Environments. Today, after I upgraded the MacOS version and restarted the laptop, the Postman app forced me to create an account which I did. However, after creating the account, I do not see my Collections and Environments anymore. All I see is some history of the requests I made recently but that does not help. I lost all the data. How can I restore it?

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**Author:** ![danny-dainton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/danny-dainton/32/29401_2.png) [@danny-dainton](https://community.postman.com/u/danny-dainton)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/created-an-account-and-lost-all-collections-and-environments/52700/2 "2023-10-02T17:49:42Z")

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Hey @kanav-bansal 👋

Welcome to the Postman community! :postman:

Your data from Scratchpad is safe.

Once signed in, you can `Migrate` all your Scratchpad data into a new Workspace using `⚙️ > Settings > Data > Migrate data` menu option and contiune using Collections, Environments and all the other Postman features.

I’m going to close this topic as [there are several similar questions](https://community.postman.com/tag/scratchpad) that have already been asked.

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**Author:** ![danny-dainton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/danny-dainton/32/29401_2.png) [@danny-dainton](https://community.postman.com/u/danny-dainton)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/created-an-account-and-lost-all-collections-and-environments/52700/3 "2023-10-02T17:49:49Z")

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