How to multiple personal spaces to migrate to the new instance

[Deleted user]

Can someone please let me know the best way of exporting multiple personal spaces for Confluence Administrator so that they can be imported to the new instance. I have been able to export and import the general spaces but for some reason Personal  Spaces dont appear under the Space Permissions. I know one way would be to ask the users of those spaces to export and then import but that wont be feasible since we have many personal spaces and also some of the users are not active in the Confluence anymore so not how how can we do it for those users. 

Many thanks

[Brian]

This cannot be done if you happen to have had a user from a userdirectory - and that user is no longer in that userdirectory. But the user actually created stuff in users "Personal Space".
Then user is now only found in  "unsynced from directory".

And the content the user have created in Confluence is not available *anyone* - not even god would be able to fetch that information from Confluence GUI ? 

May be possible from database, I guess.

But how.

[Ismael Jimoh]

Hi @[deleted] 

You will need to know the space key to be able to migrate them.

Then you can:

1. Access the space permission page
2. Open the space permission of a space
3. Replace the key with the key of the space you want to export(I believe this should be the user key of the owner of the personal space)
4. Go to content tools section
5. Perform your export as usual.

I will try and confirm the key part again as I did this a while back however note you need confluence admin permission for this.

Regards.

[Deleted user]

Thanks @Ismael Jimoh  for your quick response however it did not work. When I am replacing the key, it gives me an error saying this space has not been made public so I dont have access. 

[Ismael Jimoh]

As promised, to access, replace the entry after key with:

~<username>

Do not forget to remove <> but you need the curly thing before the username so your end result would be like:

<your-confluence-url>/spaces/viewspacesummary.action?key=~<username>

[Daniel Eads]

Hi @[deleted] ,

One additional thing to check is that the user account you're trying to access the spaces with is a member of the confluence-administrators group. In Confluence, that group provides special "super" access to some permissions beyond what the regular "Confluence Administrator" or "System Administrator" global permissions provide. More details are available here.

[Deleted user]

Hi @Daniel Eads I have added the user to the  confluence-administrators group and tried again yet I got the same error message saying that the user has not shared it with you. I have tried all the steps mentioned by @Ismael Jimoh  as well but nothing worked. 

Thanks and kind regards

[Cornelius Gillner]

I can confirm that this method still works today. 👍