How to delete an imported space when I have no permission as admin?

Markus Raab

Hey there ... 

I just wanted to clean up and delete a test space on my free Atlassian Confluence Cloud account.

Unfortunately, it seems I, the only user and administrator, am not allowed to do this. I think I imported the space some time ago when I experimented with migration, export, import.

If I remember right I imported it from a local Confluence instance.

Is there any easy way to delete this space?

Phill Fox

From the screen shot I can see that you do not have the Permissions tab which implies that you are logged in as someone with the Space Admin permission. 

One clue to who might have the Space Admin permission is the reference to the "Former User" under the administrators which may indicate that this "Former User" created the space and under the permissions did not set the Space Admin permission for anyone else. (I am making the huge assumption here that your user is not called Confluence Analytics (System)!)

To fix this you need to go through the site administrator options 

The first thing to check is that no changes have been made to the Default Space permissions as these will have impacted your ability to Admin Spaces. Check that the group you belong to administrators/site-admins has the Admin Space permission. If this is ok then you need to find the individual space and "Manage Permissions" for that space.

This should now take you in to the Space Settings but showing you who has permissions for that space.  You may find that the default values have been removed which would be why even though you are in one of the administrator groups you do not have permission on the space. I would add these back in if missing. Alternatively you can just add yourself as an individual user with Space Admin permission to allow you to delete. 
Remember Delete is a destructive process and you need to be certain that you really want to delete (and it is always worth taking a Space Export as a backup before deleting).