Some of my repositories are gone

[csabafarago]

I'm on a free plan. Some of my repositories are disappeared. According to one of the latest newsletter I got on 16th of December I still had 6 months to either pay for a plan or do some activity to prevent the deletion in my workspaces.

[Ben · Accepted solution]

Hi @csabafarago 

As @Gunjan Kumar mentioned - the cleanup was related to unused workspaces, rather than individual repositories within those workspaces. This is not a process that is planned to happen again, and is intended as a one-off operation.

I can see you have access to 3 workspaces, all of them are active and have repositories associated with them. There are no pending or processed repository deletions in the last 30 days either.

I would suggest checking your workspace list and viewing all of these to check for missing data:

• https://bitbucket.org/account/workspaces/

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

[csabafarago]

I really appreciate your answer. So sorry I think I got confused because of the UI so the repositories are not visible under "For you" page when I switch namespace it just have a create new repository button but all of those are there under the repository tab. 

Either way, I might consider signing up! Thanks!

[Gunjan Kumar]

Hi csabafarago, Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Bitbucket does not delete repositories simply because they are inactive on the free plan. However, Atlassian is cleaning up unused free workspaces. If a workspace is inactive for a long period and not reactivated after warnings, the entire workspace (and all repositories inside it) may be deleted.

Official Atlassian notice:

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Bitbucket-articles/Bitbucket-cleanup-of-free-unused-workspaces-what-you-need-to/ba-p/3144063

In short: repositories are safe as long as the workspace remains active.