My question: If I do not want to sign in or move my data to a workspace, what will happen to my existing collections, examples, environments etc. when scratchpad becomes API Lightweight client? Will export (bulk or individual) still be available should a user wish to extract their data without sign…

Unfortunately we don’t have any kind of on-prem offering at this time. Please feel free to raise this concern on GitHub though.

Actually you do. It’s the product you’re discontinuing.

Kevin: Unfortunately we don’t have any kind of on-prem offering at this time. Please feel free to raise this concern on GitHub though. research-pilot-64030: Actually you do. It’s the product you’re discontinuing. That pretty much sums it up. I have found an open source alternative that I am g…

I hope offline/scratchpad mode is available even if you have to pay. Help the postman community!

Actually you can just run an older version… It’s amazing what you can do with a windows hosts file. If you have the access to edit it on your system which for small scale and hobby users you probably will. 0.0.0.0 dl.pstmn.io 0.0.0.0 sync-v3.getpostman.com 0.0.0.0 getpost…

I for one and happy to see this Postman change… …because I want to see everyone here learn to love open source tooling. Open API (Swagger), or “Insomnia” and “RestFox” (both work the way “old Postman” used to work). The data-compliance issues here are going to force a migration off Postman. You g…

[…] will ScratchPad continue to work after September 15? Scratch Pad will not be supported by Postman after it reaches end of life, so there is no guarantee that things will work as they should over time.

Actually you can just run an older version… Yeah I realized I could do just that. Using last v7 release at this point since it was the last release before Scratch Pad. I really can’t recall anything they added since Scratch Pad came out that was of any benefit for how my team uses Postman. I s…

Think about it. If you have Postman installed and blocked it from updating, as long as it’s an old enough version to not have a kill switch for September 15th, you should be fine indefinitely as long as it continues to work with your OS. Personally, I have a copy of a much older release saved from…

What happens to existing collections when scratchpad is deprecated?

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guitar.zen (Barry Weiss) August 9, 2023, 9:55pm 22

I am still unclear. If I’m on an older version of Postman and I have blocked the updates for Postman, will ScratchPad continue to work after September 15? Can someone from Postman confirm this will impact all versions of Postman or just newer versions?

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What happens to existing collections when scratchpad is deprecated?

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