Reset my personal space after migration

[Mayank Tiwari]

After a recent migration to confluence cloud, my personal space key has changed leading to a new space. How can I repoint my personal space to old space which is also migrated.

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @telstra_mayanktiwari 

Welcome to the Atlassian community.

As an end user you cannot make that type of change. Even for administrators it is not straight forward.

Depending on the amount of content you have you may be better off simply copying it from your old space that migrated to your new personal space.

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski · Accepted solution]

Hello @telstra_mayanktiwari 

Yep  his happens after migrations, and the annoying bit is: in Confluence Cloud you can’t “repoint” your personal space to some other existing space. Your personal space is system-managed and tied to your user, so once Cloud created a new personal space key, there’s no switch to say “use the old migrated space as my personal space”.

What you can do is choose one of these practical paths:

If the “old” space is basically your real personal content: move/copy the pages from the old space into your current personal space (a Confluence admin can help do this in bulk so it’s not page-by-page).

If the key/name is the main problem: ask a Confluence admin to rename the old space key (Cloud supports renaming space keys now), and then keep using that space as a normal space  but it still won’t become your “personal space” automatically. 

So short answer: you can’t repoint personal space, you can only migrate the content (or rename the old space and use it like a regular space).

[Mayank Tiwari]

Thanks @Arkadiusz Wroblewski   and @Trudy Claspill  (for your answer above)!

Indeed a bit annoying, but I get it now, that I will have to live with this and take practical paths as you both suggested.

I would perhaps do bulk move/copy contents to new personal space and down the line get the space key updated (the alphanumeric keys in url are definitely not friendlier).. Thanks once again for your prompt responses..