I just upgraded from Postman 7.x to 8.0.2. I’d been using 7.x without bothering to create an account. When 8 asked me if I’d like to create one, I figured that I might as well go ahead with it. Now in the app, I have a “scratch pad” with all of my existing collections and an empty workspace. Is ther…

Hey @mpassell Welcome to the Postman Community! :rocket: During the new account creation on V8, you would have been given an option to move the data from the Scratch pad over to a Workspace. [image] Unfortunately, if you didn’t take this option at the time, you will need to do an export from the…

Huh. That dialog never popped up for me. Oh, well. At least I just have 4 collections to export/import. Thanks!

Hey @mpassell That’s odd. Would it be possible to send over the logs to help@postman.com so we can take a look at why the import prompt wasn’t shown? You can find the logs at View -> Developer -> View logs in Finder/Explorer.

@kamalaknn Sure. I can do that once I’m out of a meeting. Two questions: should I reference this topic in the email? Do I need to be concerned about what info is in the logs? In other words, do any URLs/headers/etc from my requests get logged?

You can reference a link to this topic in your email. The logs should not contain any information about your collections or requests. If you’d like you can open up the logs and remove portions you feel are sensitive.

I went ahead and sent the logs to the help email address. While scanning the files for sensitive info, I noticed a fair number of messages like this: [3466][1585167065378][main][warn][“CloudProxyManager~init: Error while reading proxy configuration from user data - “,{“errno”:-2,“code”:“ENOENT”,“s…

@kamalaknn It’s being tracked as ticket# 66247 if you wanted to take a look. Thanks!

@danny-dainton How would I export a collection from the scratch pad in Postman 8? As you can see from this screenshot, there isn’t an export menu item in a collection’s context menu. That’s where I would have looked in v7.x [Screen Shot 2021-01-27 at 3.28.46 PM]

If you open a collection in a new tab, on the right side of the Collection View you’ll see 3 dots, the export option can be found there. The export option will be added back into that menu, watch out for new upcoming versions.

Thank you @mpassell for sending the logs across. We were able to find the root cause of the issue. We will be pushing a fix in the next release to prompt users if they want to setup their workspace from their scratchpad on sign up.

I hadn’t realized how simple it would be to do a full export from the scratch pad and import into a workspace! Thanks to Anthony S. from Support for sending me this gif. [PostmanExportImport]

Postman 8: bringing scratch pad into a workspace

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Dishi_Mittal (Dishi Mittal) August 19, 2021, 10:32am 18

Thank you so much!!!

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Postman 8: bringing scratch pad into a workspace

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