Can Confluence Admin see ALL spaces, including ALL personal spaces?

[Wade Burgess]

How can a Confluence Admin determine if there are personal Spaces that have permissions set in such a way that only the owner of the personal Space is able to view the space?

I helped someone create a personal Space and make it private, and now when I look at the Space Directory, the personal Space is NOT listed.

What if this person leaves my company? How would I ever archive or delete the personal Space if I cannot find it or see it, even if I know it is there?

[Davin Studer · Accepted solution]

Are you a Confluence Administrator or a System Administrator? There is a difference between the two with Confluence Server. The below link describes the differences. Anyone in the confluence-administrators groups should be able to see all spaces and pages regardless of permissions or restrictions.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/global-permissions-overview-138709.html

[Mirek · Accepted solution]

I think this page could explain all differences - https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-admin-permission-levels-explained-604209420.html

Basically if you want to see all pages then by default you need to be in group - confluence-administrators . Then having a direct link you can always see that page even if it is having a restriction set.

This is what documentation says:

Members of this group can also see the content of all pages and spaces in the Confluence instance, regardless of space permissions.

[Wade Burgess]

Being logged in as a Confluence Administrator solved all my issues. Thanks for the help.

[Venkat Pragallapati]

I'm the administrator but still can't the the personal space created by user who has removed permissions for all user except him. How to track those personal spaces? 

[Davin Studer]

@Venkat Pragallapati Are you a System administrator?

[Thomas Schlegel]

@Wade Burgess ,

I just tested this with a test user in my environment. I can see the personal space of the test user as an admin. How did you make the personal space private? Removed every permissions except the one for the user himself?

[Wade Burgess]

Yes, the only permissions are set to the owner of the personal Space. This is how I figured a personal Space could be made private, not knowing that it would also be invisible to a Confluence Admin.

[Thomas Schlegel]

But I think it is not invisible ;-)

Did you set a filter, e.g. showing just Site Spaces?

[Wade Burgess]

When I go to Space Directory, then Personal Spaces, it is not listed. 

[Anh Nguyen]

Just got the same issue and had a solution.  I am using Confluence 7.5.0 Data Centre.

Must be a Confluence and/or System Administrator.  Select Spaces -> Space directory -> Personal Spaces  (left hand side)-> Select a personal space ->Select/click the i in the circle (right hand side of the selected personal space)->  Overview -> Delete Space. If you can't see Delete Space then -> Space tools (bottom left) -> Permissions -> Add your user-id and set permission -> back to Overview and delete.

[Anh Nguyen]

I got the same issue and had a solution.  I am currently using Confluence 7.5.0.  You must be a Confluence/System administrator.  Select Spaces -> Space directory -> personal Spaces -> Select the i in the circle of a personal space you need -> Overview (menu) -> Delete Space.  Just in case your group admin right doesn't allow you to delete, then select permissions (menu) -> add your user-id -> Select All -> Save -> Overview (menu) -> Delete Space.