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Where does the standalone Postman client for Windows save collections when working offline?

To clarify, I want to find where Postman saves collection files to by default when online syncing is disabled. I am not trying to export my collection as a JSON file.

I've looked in %LocalAppData%, My Documents, and Program Files, but I don't see where Postman saves its collection data.

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    They make nice tool, and crap save system like this.
    – IvanP
    Commented May 13, 2021 at 8:38
  • And will hold your data hostage if you don't keep up with online payments even if you don't need the service. They suck, use Insomnia instead.
    – Peter Kionga-Kamau
    Commented Feb 15, 2023 at 20:27
  • lesson learned - don't ever upgrade postman without backing up your collections manually
    – jediz
    Commented Jun 21, 2023 at 9:24

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It looks like Postman uses LevelDB. On Windows, I found my Postman DB located at:

%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\Postman\IndexedDB\

ps: %HOMEPATH% is path for C:\Users\xxxx\

also worth mentioning: %APPDATA% is a shortcut for C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\

According to Piere F, macOS users can find it under:

~/Library/Application Support/Postman/IndexedDB

ps: Note ~ is path for /Users/userAccount/

According to David, Ubuntu users can find it under:

~/.config/Postman/IndexedDB
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    I was able to locate leveldb with name as 000005.ldb. how we can import to new postman in different system, i'm using windows 10.
    – tomalex
    Commented Oct 22, 2018 at 23:56
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    I pretty much copied over whole postman folder to my new system and it worked github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/2721
    – tomalex
    Commented Oct 23, 2018 at 0:18
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    For macOS users: I found my Postman DB under ~/Library/Application Support/Postman
    – Pierre F
    Commented Jan 11, 2019 at 9:04
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    On Windows, you can use the shortcut %AppData%\Postman\IndexedDB
    – Stevoisiak
    Commented Jan 11, 2019 at 15:19
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    It's ~/.config/Postman/IndexedDB on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine.
    – David
    Commented Mar 8, 2019 at 19:24
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Postman is using Chromium offline storage capabilities because at the end it's a SPA running inside Chromium (Electron technology).

From Postman's top menubar:

  • Select View → Show Dev Tools
  • Select the Application tab
  • In the sidebar, open Storage → IndexedDB → postman - file:// → collection_requests
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This support documentation helped me recover my collections after the postman application stopped working.

https://support.postman.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035071313-How-to-recover-my-data-

If you weren't logged in to the app and using it offline or in the Scratch Pad mode then your data won't get synced to our servers and stays local to your instance. In this case, try following the steps below:

Look for the backup files under the following folder: %appdata%\Postman\​for Windows ~/Library/Application Support/Postman​for macOS ~/.config/Postman​ for Linux

Backup file names will be similar to backup-2020-02-26T23-13-43.082Z.json (date or time will be different for you).

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    Highly under-rated answer. This worked like a charm and saved me a lot of heartache. Never am I ever going to try and update my old postman version ( v6.x) ... Thank you !! Note: The backup was a 2 months old but it was still good enough. didnt lose much
    – objectNotFound
    Commented May 14, 2022 at 20:20
  • link broken now :/ At least the quote is here thought!
    – cellepo
    Commented Aug 15, 2023 at 20:58
  • For me backups were at AppData\Roaming\Postman.
    – Korli
    Commented Sep 20, 2023 at 10:48
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On Mac: The json files were automatically backed up (/Users//Library/Application Support/Postman/backup-YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.SSSZ.json) but it is not documented anywhere. You just have to reimport them

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  • This worked for me. But is imported both my local collection and the Team collections.
    – benhorgen
    Commented Mar 16, 2021 at 23:09
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    This is also present in Windows.
    – Jami
    Commented Apr 7, 2022 at 14:48
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In windows, postman v9.6.2 I was able to restore collections by pasting the IndexedDB folder in the following path:

\AppData\Roaming\Postman\Partitions\<GUID>\
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Alternatively, if you just want to look at the collection, you can export it into json format from the collection menu.

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We work offline. So for Postman Scratchpad (official offline usage):

  • On Windows: %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\Postman\Partitions\
  • On Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Postman/Partitions/

Simply backup or share the entire directory when you want to synch.

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If you are using a snapped Postman on Linux, let me save you some time. Copy all the content from your source snapped Postman UNDER (as the target GUID can be different)

/home/username/snap/postman/<id>/.config/Postman/Partitions/<standalone GUID>

to your target snapped Postman UNDER

/home/username/snap/postman/<a different id>/.config/Postman/Partitions/<a different standalone GUID>

Make sure you respect the target postman id and partition GUID.

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    Wow! What a time saver! This saved my day! Thanks! (^__^)/
    – Kermit
    Commented Jul 19, 2023 at 14:26
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For the version Postman from Google Chrome extension, you need copy all files from path:

"%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Storage\ext\fhbjgbiflinjbdggehcddcbncdddomop\def\IndexedDB\chrome-extension_..."

The files inside path above contains all history and collections from Postman

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  • As of 2020-09 with current Postman v7.32, this answer is no longer applicable.
    – simpleuser
    Commented Sep 20, 2020 at 22:22
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    STILL works in 2022
    – user11720628
    Commented Mar 28, 2022 at 8:00
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Linux Chrome or Chromium Postman extension storage path Location

/home/{USER}/.config/chromium/Default/Storage/ext/fhbjgbiflinjbdggehcddcbncdddomop/

Thanks.

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  • Mine is under /home/user/.config/google-chrome/Default/Storage/ext/fhbjgbiflinjbdggehcddcbncdddomop. Thank you.
    – function1983
    Commented Feb 20, 2022 at 1:11
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Win10: You have to back up your old Postman C:\Users%user%\AppData\Roaming\Postman\IndexedDB Then copy it to the same location of the new Postman installation.

This will recover all your collections.

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In Debian-like systems, using Postman v7, I found a backup of all the collections and environments saved as JSON in ~/.config/Postman with the prefix backup-.

eg: 

~/.config/Postman/backup-timestamp.json

Also, found a recent support article in Postman documentation: How to recover my data

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Windows 10, I copy these folder to another and worked.

C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\IndexedDB\chrome-extension_coohjcphdfgbiolnekdpbcijmhambjff_0.indexeddb.leveldb

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    Commented Nov 11, 2021 at 8:46
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I got files in under \AppData\Roaming\Postman as backup.json

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