I created a Postman account when I migrated from the Chrome app to the native one in the hopes that it would make the transition smoother. It ended up only really syncing my collections, which I could have just exported to a file and re-imported, and my old history had to become a collection called “History”.
Since then, I haven’t used a single feature of my Postman account. I only use Postman on a single device, which means the only time I remember I even have a Postman account is when this message pops up:
This was especially an annoyance when this situation happened, but it’s come up a few other times as well. Any time this happens, Postman renders itself unusable until I sign back in, wasting the handful of seconds I was saving by using Postman instead of just curl.
I’d like to just sign out of my Postman account and forget that it ever existed, but when I try to do that, I’m informed that all my saved data will be deleted. As a very light user of Postman, the feature I use the most is history, sometimes wanting to recall a request I made many months ago. Having my history grouped by date is really handy for this, and I lose that if I export my history to a collection that can be re-imported. History also seems to be the one thing that’s not exported when I create a backup.postman_dump.json
file. I see that I can “deactivate Postman Sync,” but I suspect that won’t prevent this “session expired” message from still popping up at random whenever there’s a brief outage of Postman’s systems.
Is there a way that I can sign out of Postman while keeping all my history intact? I’d be fine with copying/editing some stuff in ~/.config/Postman/
or DevTools if that’s the only way to do it; I just don’t want to take the time to blindly poke around at all the files in there. It looks like my history gets saved in IndexedDB, which I’m not terribly familiar with.