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Some of my repositories are gone

csabafarago
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February 10, 2026

I'm on a free plan. If my repositories gone for forever I will move all my other repositories for sure. Some of my repositories are gone. 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.

Interesting that the GIT meant to be as a was of backup source, and these repository gets deleted without any prior warning sent to the customers. Its kinda loses its purpose. 

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Ben
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February 12, 2026

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:

Cheers!

- Ben (Bitbucket Cloud Support)

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Gunjan Kumar
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February 11, 2026

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.

 

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