Upgrading to Insomnia 8 has deleted or hidden all of my queries and configuration

[GeeDat]

Expected Behavior

Updating Insonmia version should not remove existing queries or config

Actual Behavior

Updating Insomnia to version 8 removes all queries and config.

I allowed Insomnia to update automatically as usual. The update to version 8 has removed all of my query history and configuration. I first tried using scratchpad and then created an account, which said it was synchronising, but still no sign of anything. This represents many many hours of work and if I have to recreate these, I may as well swtich to another application which I can trust with my data.

Reproduction Steps

Accept the update dialogue in Insmonia 7 Follow the on screen steps All queries and config have disappeared

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the issue tracker for this problem.

Additional Information

No response

Insomnia Version

8.0.0

What operating system are you using?

macOS

Operating System Version

Mac OS Monterey

Installation method

Already installed. This was an in app update.

Last Known Working Insomnia version

7

[luciano-fiandesio]

Same problem here, completely unacceptable. Fortunately, I had a recent export of my queries, but I'm dropping Insomnia NOW.

[garybaines]

Same here. I downgraded back to the prior version (I just installed it over the top - Mac M2), then turned off automatic update, and can now see all my old queries again.

[luciano-fiandesio]

@garybaines how did you downgrade?

[merc1er]

garybaines how did you downgrade?

You can download the desired release from the releases page: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases

[roughiain]

How the F$#% did this get past QA

[finkmanAtSap]

This is the nail in the coffin for me after seeing the release popup with all the new cloud capabilities of v8. Apparently Insomnia wants to follow the path of Postman, making $$$ via licensing while turning it into a slow, feature-bloated mess. In my opinion, it is sacrificing its unique selling point: being a light-weight, free to use and blazingly fast alternative to Postman because there is no HTTP communication hidden behind every mouse click.

[apalfonso-fln]

How to kill an app 101.

[jonashcroft]

To anyone like me who lost their data during the 8.0.0 upgrade, it looks like the data does still exist and is exportable to a JSON object.

Settings > Data > Export

[finkmanAtSap]

Does not work for me, unfortunately:

[renickbuettner]

Same here. It restored everything after signing in into their new cloud service.

Why the hell to I need so use a cloud service now? I got Insomnia because it had no cloud...

[jpweijers]

I get that they want to make money but I really don't want a second postman. I'll be downgrading to the last version before version 8.0.0 and turning off auto-updates

[ewertonls]

same issue here, also i don't want to sign up or login to use a http requests collection. i used insomnia because there was no required cloud or accounts

[vic-bukhantsov]

Same here,

rollbacked to the previous release.

[mateusneresrb]

Complicated, I was using postman and migrated so I wouldn't have to log in and save to the cloud, and now they're forcing me to.

[rajatgiri-ec]

Rolling back to the 2023.5.8 worked for me.

Don't forget to disable automatic software updates from preferences.

[octavd]

Indeed this version 8.0 seems MAJOR as deemed by the developers. It's a MAJOR thing loosing everything after an upgrade.

[aarbi]

I won't hate on insomnia, we all know that those issues might happen with major releases. For now, I downgraded to 2023.5.8 as suggested above. I will wait for a future release where all the workspaces and projects are smoothly moved to v8

[bredwrd]

Downgrading to 2023.5.8 has restored my requests. Signing into a cloud platform is not an option for me since my requests may contain sensitive data that I certainly don't want (or need) to be hosted on a cloud platform.

Fortunately, downgrading is an easy solution, compared to the last time an Insomnia auto-update lost all of my requests, when I had to manually tinker with database files and re-create my folder structure from scratch. Progress!

[Dobbychen]

I've also downgraded to 2023.5.8. When upgrading to a major version with one click from auto-update, insomnia introduces a sudden change of major UX and loss of user data, didn't see this coming at all.

[meshpaul]

This Version missing a way to share exported collections

[meshpaul]

I had a previously shared the exported version of Insomnia collections pre Version 8 when trying to import data I get the following error

[gmac]

Downgrading has not restored my data. Annoying. Wish I'd turned off auto-updates a long time ago.

[selcuktemizsoy]

same problem here, I lost all my data and can not retrieve my requests. I also don't want to sync my data with insomnia cloud but there is only one option to use insomnia and it is logging in and syncing your data which is not acceptable.

Edit: removing updated version and installing this version restored my workspaces. https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%402023.5.8

[Apophenia]

Downgrading to 2023.5.8 has restored my requests as well. This is an unthinkable change to me; I imagine the reason why many employers were chill with Insomnia was because it doesn't push developers into syncing sensitive data.

[userBarbosa]

Same problem here, i had so many collections that i don't have any backup. dayum, i'm fcked.

Edit: even after downgrading to 2023.5.8 i didn't get my requests back. I also tried to restore via .config dir but all files were updated to 0 bytes:

Thank you Kong :smiley: :+1:

[csmithmtb]

Same problem. I understand the need to make money to pay for the development of the product but there are organizations that don't allow API test requests to be stored in the cloud (or at least a cloud that hasn't gone thru a lengthy, thorough review process).

[dan-frohlich]

Rarely have I been so sad to have executed an application upgrade. Losing all my saved requests was one thing but this "cloud sync" roadblock/modal pop-up I face on startup is a killer.

As a developer at an organization that cares about exfiltration, this is a serious issue. The default behavior on this new "cloud sync" pop-up appearing in v8 is to encourage exfiltration of internal architecture.

Hard pass.

[ClaasGnerlich]

I've never had any problems with Insomia. Now I am also affected by the data loss/hide. And all because of the intrusive update popper. Jumping to the previous version helped me see all the data again and continue working normally.

Very unfortunate. I will now stay on version 7 and wish Kong all the best for the future.

[austinwofford]

After downgrading to version 8, I'll be upgrading to version 7 until I can find a replacement. I've been using Insomnia since 2016 and have convinced countless coworkers to switch from Postman. It looks like Hacker News has a nice thread of replacements that people like.

[JeanPoffo]

This new update brought everything we liked that WASN'T in the app. Cloud, need to login, changing color palette, corrupting old collections. A real shame.

[gbrlmtrz]

What a way to ruin a perfectly working app. also, downgrading doesn't seem to restore data on Ubuntu so there is that.

If you need to downgrade on ubuntu, make sure you downgrade the same version that is, if you were using a snap you need to the snap release, and if you were using the .deb package you need that one.

[CoolGoose]

How to do a disastrous release. This makes 0 sense to not even be allowed to see my previous local data without popping up the whole account setup down my throat.

[gbrlmtrz]

Rolling back to the 2023.5.8 worked for me.

Don't forget to disable automatic software updates from preferences.

Where is the disable automatic updates option? i don't see it on the linux version.

[stmcox]

Scroll down in Preferences,

[fenneclabs]

Thanks for the advice to downgrade, I recovered my requests and made an export of it.

Any advices for another application that does not require a cloud account to work?

[choas]

As it's still open source don't forget to fork it and then checkout the core@2023.5.8 tags to build your own version. This allows you to change "Made with" into "F***ed up with 💜 by Kong"

[skhaz]

I also lost all my data, and I used Insomnia precisely because it wasn't related to the cloud.

[gbrlmtrz]

Scroll down in Preferences,

Thanks for the reply, the option doesn't seem to be there for Ubuntu, what I did was to make the installed snap bin file read only... and hopefully that will work.

[tuwid]

I get it that I'm not paying for this and I have no say but man, it HAD TO HAPPEN NOW that I had to deliver my stuff... Instead of focusing on my deliverables have to investigate why all of a sudden all my stuff is gone and why I have to use a cloud netflix subscription model 😆 Thanks to the folks giving advice here. I'm downgrading and turning off updates. Most likely will ditch this and move to something that resembles what insomnia used to be.. I wish the insomnia team all the best in their pursuit of greed/happiness

Edit: clarifying thought process

[sdkuck]

Revert to 2023.5.7 and find a good fork.

[subnetmarco]

We have shipped 8.1, here is a video on how to use data in the cloud or locally:

Watch video

[e3roll]

If you can't see your queries and want to use Insomnia offline, this is the solution:

1. On login screen, click "Export data and more"
2. Save to a local folder
3. Click "Use the local Scratch Pad" -> Scratch Pads opens.
4. Click "Scratch Pad" at the left pane
5. Click "Import"
6. Open wrk_{id}.json file

[naokichau]

same here guys, loss all requests, like 40+ of them 🥲 another one become postman

UPDATE: managed to recover them 🙏 in 8.1.0, still please don't become postman 🙏

[CQD]

Configs in base environment is not getting exported, at least not for me.

Downgrade works, base environment is also there. But the update dialog pop up right after I unchecked auto update check box, so I have to do it a second time.

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Some other thoughts:

I believe "not synced" should be an easy option. End-to-end encryption is good to have, but I still don't want to send my (and my client's) dev server address and all private endpoints to anywhere in any form.

There's no such option in 8.x starting screen, so it looks like I could not get un-synced without being synced in the first place. This makes me nervous.

I also believe it would be very nice if you could warn people that multi-projects / collections will cease to work without paying BEFORE the update.

[subnetmarco]

Configs in base environment is not getting exported, at least not for me.

We will check this, everything should be exported, if that's not the case this is a bug.

[nickhobbs94]

+1 anybody got a fork of Insomnia or another project that's wholly offline?

[ewertonls]

+1 anybody got a fork of Insomnia or another project that's wholly offline?

You can use the 2023.5.8 version, it'll work fine. There's hoppscotch, the desktop app is under development so there's only the web version for now. But it won't force an online account and you can selfhost the app as well, so you can keep stuff private.

[bukajsytlos]

2023.4.0 for me since this "unacceptable" change https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6301 still not being fixed

[engmackenzie]

I also lost all my data after the update. I tried downgrading back to 2023.5.8 that didn't restore the data.

[engmackenzie]

I also lost all my data after the update. I tried downgrading back to 2023.5.8 that didn't restore the data.

The only collection I have is an empty Scratch Pad collection.