Leaving a team deleted all my personal workspaces

[w4dd325]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the tracker for existing similar issues and I know that duplicates will be closed

Describe the Issue

I joined a team to help someone build something (which I have done a few times in the past).
Once I had finished helping them I left the team.

When I left there was a message that said I would no longer have access to workspaces owned by the team including personal workspaces (I had not seen this before). But I had to leave this team regardless as it was with someone I didn't know that I was helping temporarily.

On leaving this team, ALL of my workspaces including all my personal workspaces that I had created prior to joining this team temporarily have now vanished.

How can I get my workspaces back?
And how can users leave a team without losing all their existing work and collections?

Steps To Reproduce

Joined a new team
Left the new team
All workspaces vanished.

Screenshots or Videos

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Operating System

Windows

Postman Version

9.27.1

Postman Platform

Both

Additional Context?

No response

[ArjunSingh-PM]

Hi @w4dd325, thanks for reporting this issue. Would you be able to reach out to the person you assigned your personal workspaces to before you left the team? If yes, you can request them to export your collections and environments and share the same with you.

[kathychurch]

This happened to myself and another person yesterday as well when our team trial ended. Lost access to our personal workspaces and all their contents. I requested for one of the people still on the team to export our collections, but he was unable to find them.

[w4dd325]

I will try but the person I was helping is not someone I know... So fingers crossed they try and help.
Either way, this feels like it could be a massive security risk, as you are saying that the random guy I was helping now has visibility and ownership of all of my personal workspaces... Unless I have misunderstood??

[w4dd325]

I messaged the person 3 days ago but as of yet I have not heard back and still have no access to any of my workspaces.
Are there any other ways to get these back?

[w4dd325]

A little bit of additional information. I just noticed all of my previously created API keys have also disappeared.

It's almost like, when I left the team, my profile was completely recreated.

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I had a couple of theories on ways to improve the behaviour of leaving a team...

The first is; only remove team workspaces when you leave a team.

If there is a need to remove personal workspaces then only remove personal workspaces created while being part of that team.
Or, when leaving a team the user could be prompted to backup personal workspaces (like the export all data option). And make it explicitly clear that ALL workspaces would be lost if not backed up.

It just seems really odd to me, that all workspaces, even personal workspaces would be tied to a team.

For example; If I was working on a personal project where I wanted to keep quiet until I was ready to share, the ownership of that workspace (which was personal, and not team related in any way) would be transferred to the team ... even if its set as a "personal" workspace.

Hope this information will help you tweak the behaviour of leaving a team. 🤞

[ramji367]

@w4dd325 - We are making immediate changes to both the Join team and Leave team flows to incorporate the feedback. The ability to join multiple teams will not be available for some users until we roll out these fixes.

[w4dd325]

One other thing I noticed, is this;

I have now rejoined my original work team (3 people) ... but the contributor lists "1 Private User" ... which is me but from when I was originally in the team.

[frasermclean]

This has just happened to me too and I have lost all of my personal collections!