How to restore an accidentally deleted Collection

[TheHolyWaffle]

So, I was too fast in cleaning up some of the Collections that I had sitting around. But I accidentally deleted a very valuable collection. Unfortunately, I didn't have sync enabled.

Is there any way to restore this Collection?

[geoshak]

Yeap, it's FREAKING absurd.
I was cleaning up, and the app showed a valuable collection as 'New Document', which was the name for another collection with nothing in it. I deleted it, and it deleted the valuable collection instead.

I FREAKING HATE THIS. Got me so mad.
Used to love this app.

[cmarqs]

The exactly same issue happened to me: I was deleting "New Document" and my whole collection gone. I've remove these lines from insomnia.Workspace.db...

{"$$deleted":true,"_id":"wrk_1ad198a9eb5747bfadce269f8a88f41f"}
{"$$deleted":true,"_id":"wrk_510bf395bd7f482c98a02b68526920a7"}

...to try restore it, but the "New Document" and "My Collection" re-appeared but no endpoints inside. Waiting something on this issue now. :(

Edit: I was saved by Time Machine from Apple. I've restored all files and the collection showed up.

[klit79]

It is because auto sort base on time it is opened.

For me, I open the collection to check if there is anything valuable before delete.
Then I delete immediately without checking the name because it is the same name anyway.
However, by the time I clicked back, it is sorted base on time it is opened, so the one I want to delete is not deleted and the one I do not want to delete is deleted.

I managed to recover the collection 6 months ago by running this on Mac

cd /Users/user/Library/Application Support/Insomnia
cp backups/8.5.1/*.db .

[JoshukLite]

@klit79 agree. I just had the same issue and such UX is very not intuitive. I did not expect a collection to change its position and I removed it accidentally. Now I don't have any backups except some very old ones I made a year ago and I need to recreate the whole collection again.
It's a pity that it's so easy to remove a whole collection or a request without the ability to undo the action taking into account the not user-friendly UX.

[richardw33d]

You're just my hero! Thanks

[Kerubi-5]

I hope they fix this soon, this comment saved me hours of head-ache and work 💯