[GH-ISSUE #5871] [FR] Ability to export from AppFlowy Cloud Beta and remove existing data #2605

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opened 2026-03-23 21:23:43 +00:00 by mirror · 1 comment

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Originally created by @Thrilleratplay on GitHub (Aug 3, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/issues/5871

Description

First of, thank you for AppFlowy. It is the first and only application I can use to track my personal tasks that fits my workflow instead of needing to learn a new one.

I was recently looking at the setting and noticed my cloud settings were set to "AppFlowy Cloud Beta". While this is a great feature and useful to many, I prefer my data to be local. I am not logged into any Oauth account, this is a local user (or so I think). I changed the cloud setting to be local and found the information from about October 2023. I switched back to "AppFlowy Cloud Beta" to find my current tasks. My apologies if I have missed this in the documentation, github issues and discussions, but I cannot seem to be able to find where there is the functionality, or proposed functionality, to backup/export from one cloud instance, whether it be AppFlowy's Cloud or a self hosted one, and import it to be used locally or migrate from AppFlowy's Cloud to a self hosted one. Additionally, users should be able to remove data stored on AppFlow's Cloud.

Impact

The ability to migrate data will allow users more freedom over where their information is stored.
Removing unwanted cloud backups will save AppFlowy the storage overhead

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Originally created by @Thrilleratplay on GitHub (Aug 3, 2024). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/issues/5871 ### Description First of, thank you for AppFlowy. It is the first and only application I can use to track my personal tasks that fits my workflow instead of needing to learn a new one. I was recently looking at the setting and noticed my cloud settings were set to "AppFlowy Cloud Beta". While this is a great feature and useful to many, I prefer my data to be local. I am not logged into any Oauth account, this is a local user (or so I think). I changed the cloud setting to be local and found the information from about October 2023. I switched back to "AppFlowy Cloud Beta" to find my current tasks. My apologies if I have missed this in the documentation, github issues and discussions, but I cannot seem to be able to find where there is the functionality, or proposed functionality, to backup/export from one cloud instance, whether it be AppFlowy's Cloud or a self hosted one, and import it to be used locally or migrate from AppFlowy's Cloud to a self hosted one. Additionally, users should be able to remove data stored on AppFlow's Cloud. ### Impact * The ability to migrate data will allow users more freedom over where their information is stored. * Removing unwanted cloud backups will save AppFlowy the storage overhead ### Additional Context _No response_

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