diff --git a/packages/insomnia-app/app/common/__tests__/export.test.ts b/packages/insomnia-app/app/common/__tests__/export.test.ts
index 3a30337ee..40db13f36 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia-app/app/common/__tests__/export.test.ts
+++ b/packages/insomnia-app/app/common/__tests__/export.test.ts
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ describe('exportWorkspacesHAR() and exportRequestsHAR()', () => {
     });
     const includePrivateDocs = true;
     // Test export whole workspace.
-    const exportWorkspacesJson = await exportWorkspacesHAR(wrk1, includePrivateDocs);
+    const exportWorkspacesJson = await exportWorkspacesHAR([wrk1], includePrivateDocs);
     const exportWorkspacesData = JSON.parse(exportWorkspacesJson);
     expect(exportWorkspacesData).toMatchObject({
       log: {
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ describe('exportWorkspacesHAR() and exportRequestsHAR()', () => {
       activeEnvironmentId: env2Private._id,
     });
     const includePrivateDocs = false;
-    const json = await exportWorkspacesHAR(null, includePrivateDocs);
+    const json = await exportWorkspacesHAR([], includePrivateDocs);
     const data = JSON.parse(json);
     expect(data).toMatchObject({
       log: {
@@ -259,8 +259,8 @@ describe('export', () => {
       parentId: eBase._id,
     });
     // Test export whole workspace.
-    const exportedWorkspacesJson = await exportWorkspacesData(null, false, 'json');
-    const exportedWorkspacesYaml = await exportWorkspacesData(null, false, 'yaml');
+    const exportedWorkspacesJson = await exportWorkspacesData([], false, 'json');
+    const exportedWorkspacesYaml = await exportWorkspacesData([], false, 'yaml');
     const exportWorkspacesDataJson = JSON.parse(exportedWorkspacesJson);
     const exportWorkspacesDataYaml = YAML.parse(exportedWorkspacesYaml);
     // Ensure JSON is the same as YAML
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ describe('export', () => {
       isPrivate: true,
       parentId: eBase._id,
     });
-    const result = await exportWorkspacesData(w, false, 'json');
+    const result = await exportWorkspacesData([w], false, 'json');
     expect(JSON.parse(result)).toEqual({
       _type: 'export',
       __export_format: 4,
diff --git a/packages/insomnia-app/app/common/export.ts b/packages/insomnia-app/app/common/export.ts
index 8708c6e26..5b6e764b9 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia-app/app/common/export.ts
+++ b/packages/insomnia-app/app/common/export.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import { isRequest } from '../models/request';
 import { isRequestGroup } from '../models/request-group';
 import { isProtoDirectory } from '../models/proto-directory';
 import { isProtoFile } from '../models/proto-file';
-import { isWorkspace } from '../models/workspace';
+import { isWorkspace, Workspace } from '../models/workspace';
 import { isApiSpec } from '../models/api-spec';
 import { isCookieJar } from '../models/cookie-jar';
 import { isEnvironment } from '../models/environment';
@@ -34,22 +34,22 @@ import { isUnitTest } from '../models/unit-test';
 
 const EXPORT_FORMAT = 4;
 
-async function getDocWithDescendants(
-  parentDoc: BaseModel | null = null,
-  includePrivateDocs = false,
-) {
+const getDocWithDescendants = (includePrivateDocs = false) => async (parentDoc: BaseModel | null) => {
   const docs = await db.withDescendants(parentDoc);
   return docs.filter(
     // Don't include if private, except if we want to
     doc => !doc?.isPrivate || includePrivateDocs,
   );
-}
+};
 
 export async function exportWorkspacesHAR(
-  model: BaseModel | null = null,
+  workspaces: Workspace[],
   includePrivateDocs = false,
 ) {
-  const docs = await getDocWithDescendants(model, includePrivateDocs);
+  // regarding `[null]`, see the comment here in `exportWorkspacesData`
+  const rootDocs = workspaces.length === 0 ? [null] : workspaces;
+  const promises = rootDocs.map(getDocWithDescendants(includePrivateDocs));
+  const docs = (await Promise.all(promises)).flat();
   const requests = docs.filter(isRequest);
   return exportRequestsHAR(requests, includePrivateDocs);
 }
@@ -118,11 +118,14 @@ export async function exportRequestsHAR(
 }
 
 export async function exportWorkspacesData(
-  parentDoc: BaseModel | null,
+  workspaces: Workspace[],
   includePrivateDocs: boolean,
   format: 'json' | 'yaml',
 ) {
-  const docs = await getDocWithDescendants(parentDoc, includePrivateDocs);
+  // Semantically, if an empty array is passed, then nothing will be returned.  What an empty array really signifies is "no parent", which, at the database layer is the same as "parentId === null", hence we add null in ourselves.
+  const rootDocs = workspaces.length === 0 ? [null] : workspaces;
+  const promises = rootDocs.map(getDocWithDescendants(includePrivateDocs));
+  const docs = (await Promise.all(promises)).flat();
   const requests = docs.filter(doc => isRequest(doc) || isGrpcRequest(doc));
   return exportRequestsData(requests, includePrivateDocs, format);
 }
@@ -141,11 +144,11 @@ export async function exportRequestsData(
     resources: [],
   };
   const docs: BaseModel[] = [];
-  const workspaces: BaseModel[] = [];
-  const mapTypeAndIdToDoc: Record<string, any> = {};
+  const workspaces: Workspace[] = [];
+  const mapTypeAndIdToDoc: Record<string, BaseModel> = {};
 
-  for (const req of requests) {
-    const ancestors: BaseModel[] = clone(await db.withAncestors(req));
+  for (const request of requests) {
+    const ancestors = clone<BaseModel[]>(await db.withAncestors(request));
 
     for (const ancestor of ancestors) {
       const key = ancestor.type + '___' + ancestor._id;
@@ -164,7 +167,7 @@ export async function exportRequestsData(
   }
 
   for (const workspace of workspaces) {
-    const descendants: BaseModel[] = (await db.withDescendants(workspace)).filter(d => {
+    const descendants = (await db.withDescendants(workspace)).filter(d => {
       // Only interested in these additional model types.
       return (
         isCookieJar(d) ||
diff --git a/packages/insomnia-app/app/plugins/context/__tests__/data.test.ts b/packages/insomnia-app/app/plugins/context/__tests__/data.test.ts
index da264a37a..1b5d149ca 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia-app/app/plugins/context/__tests__/data.test.ts
+++ b/packages/insomnia-app/app/plugins/context/__tests__/data.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import * as plugin from '../data';
-import * as modals from '../../../ui/components/modals';
 import path from 'path';
 import { globalBeforeEach } from '../../../__jest__/before-each';
 import * as models from '../../../models/index';
@@ -8,21 +7,13 @@ import fs from 'fs';
 import { getAppVersion } from '../../../common/constants';
 import { WorkspaceScopeKeys } from '../../../models/workspace';
 
-const PLUGIN = {
-  name: 'my-plugin',
-  version: '1.0.0',
-  directory: '/plugins/my-plugin',
-  module: {},
-};
+jest.mock('../../../ui/components/modals');
 
 describe('init()', () => {
   beforeEach(globalBeforeEach);
 
   it('initializes correctly', async () => {
-    // @ts-expect-error -- TSCONVERSION genuine, plugin.init doesn't take any arguments
-    const { data } = plugin.init({
-      name: PLUGIN,
-    });
+    const { data } = plugin.init();
     expect(Object.keys(data)).toEqual(['import', 'export']);
     expect(Object.keys(data.export).sort()).toEqual(['har', 'insomnia']);
     expect(Object.keys(data.import).sort()).toEqual(['raw', 'uri']);
@@ -40,13 +31,10 @@ describe('app.import.*', () => {
   });
 
   it('uri', async () => {
-    // @ts-expect-error -- TSCONVERSION mocking with jest function
-    modals.showModal = jest.fn();
     const workspace = await models.workspace.getById('wrk_1');
     expect(await db.all(models.workspace.type)).toEqual([workspace]);
     expect(await db.count(models.request.type)).toBe(0);
-    // @ts-expect-error -- TSCONVERSION genuine, plugin.init doesn't take any arguments
-    const { data } = plugin.init(PLUGIN);
+    const { data } = plugin.init();
     const filename = path.resolve(__dirname, '../__fixtures__/basic-import.json');
     await data.import.uri(`file://${filename}`);
     const allWorkspaces = await db.all(models.workspace.type);
@@ -91,13 +79,10 @@ describe('app.import.*', () => {
   });
 
   it('importRaw', async () => {
-    // @ts-expect-error -- TSCONVERSION mocking with jest function
-    modals.showModal = jest.fn();
     const workspace = await models.workspace.getById('wrk_1');
     expect(await db.all(models.workspace.type)).toEqual([workspace]);
     expect(await db.count(models.request.type)).toBe(0);
-    // @ts-expect-error -- TSCONVERSION genuine, plugin.init doesn't take any arguments
-    const { data } = plugin.init(PLUGIN);
+    const { data } = plugin.init();
     const filename = path.resolve(__dirname, '../__fixtures__/basic-import.json');
     await data.import.raw(fs.readFileSync(filename, 'utf8'));
     const allWorkspaces = await db.all(models.workspace.type);
@@ -167,10 +152,7 @@ describe('app.export.*', () => {
   });
 
   it('insomnia', async () => {
-    // @ts-expect-error -- TSCONVERSION mocking with jest function
-    modals.showModal = jest.fn();
-    // @ts-expect-error -- TSCONVERSION genuine, plugin.init doesn't take any arguments
-    const { data } = plugin.init(PLUGIN);
+    const { data } = plugin.init();
     const exported = await data.export.insomnia();
     const exportedData = JSON.parse(exported);
     expect(typeof exportedData.__export_date).toBe('string');
@@ -219,10 +201,7 @@ describe('app.export.*', () => {
   });
 
   it('har', async () => {
-    // @ts-expect-error -- TSCONVERSION mocking with jest function
-    modals.showModal = jest.fn();
-    // @ts-expect-error -- TSCONVERSION genuine, plugin.init doesn't take any arguments
-    const { data } = plugin.init(PLUGIN);
+    const { data } = plugin.init();
     const exported = await data.export.har();
     const exportedData = JSON.parse(exported);
     exportedData.log.entries[0].startedDateTime = '2017-11-24T18:12:12.849Z';
diff --git a/packages/insomnia-app/app/plugins/context/data.ts b/packages/insomnia-app/app/plugins/context/data.ts
index c8586e827..5ff23f8ad 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia-app/app/plugins/context/data.ts
+++ b/packages/insomnia-app/app/plugins/context/data.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ interface PluginImportOptions {
 }
 
 interface InsomniaExport {
-  workspace?: Workspace | null;
+  workspace?: Workspace;
   includePrivate?: boolean;
   format?: 'json' | 'yaml';
 }
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export const init = () => ({
         includePrivate,
         format,
       }: InsomniaExport = {}) => exportWorkspacesData(
-        workspace || null,
+        workspace ? [workspace] : [],
         Boolean(includePrivate),
         format || 'json',
       ),
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export const init = () => ({
         workspace,
         includePrivate,
       }: HarExport = {}) => exportWorkspacesHAR(
-        workspace || null,
+        workspace ? [workspace] : [],
         Boolean(includePrivate),
       ),
     },
diff --git a/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/redux/modules/global.tsx b/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/redux/modules/global.tsx
index f44c2485c..7d7125809 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/redux/modules/global.tsx
+++ b/packages/insomnia-app/app/ui/redux/modules/global.tsx
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ import {
   DEPRECATED_ACTIVITY_INSOMNIA,
   isValidActivity,
 } from '../../../common/constants';
-import { selectSettings } from '../selectors';
+import { selectSettings, selectWorkspacesForActiveSpace } from '../selectors';
 import { getDesignerDataDir } from '../../../common/electron-helpers';
 import { Settings } from '../../../models/settings';
 import { GrpcRequest } from '../../../models/grpc-request';
@@ -595,11 +595,12 @@ const writeExportedFileToFileSystem = (filename: string, jsonData: string, onDon
   fs.writeFile(filename, jsonData, {}, onDone);
 };
 
-export const exportAllToFile = () => async (dispatch: Dispatch) => {
+export const exportAllToFile = () => async (dispatch: Dispatch, getState) => {
   dispatch(loadStart());
   showSelectExportTypeModal({
     onCancel: () => { dispatch(loadStop()); },
     onDone: async selectedFormat => {
+      const state = getState();
       // Check if we want to export private environments.
       const environments = await models.environment.all();
 
@@ -622,20 +623,22 @@ export const exportAllToFile = () => async (dispatch: Dispatch) => {
         return;
       }
 
+      const workspaces = selectWorkspacesForActiveSpace(state);
+
       let stringifiedExport;
 
       try {
         switch (selectedFormat) {
           case VALUE_HAR:
-            stringifiedExport = await exportWorkspacesHAR(null, exportPrivateEnvironments);
+            stringifiedExport = await exportWorkspacesHAR(workspaces, exportPrivateEnvironments);
             break;
 
           case VALUE_YAML:
-            stringifiedExport = await exportWorkspacesData(null, exportPrivateEnvironments, 'yaml');
+            stringifiedExport = await exportWorkspacesData(workspaces, exportPrivateEnvironments, 'yaml');
             break;
 
           case VALUE_JSON:
-            stringifiedExport = await exportWorkspacesData(null, exportPrivateEnvironments, 'json');
+            stringifiedExport = await exportWorkspacesData(workspaces, exportPrivateEnvironments, 'json');
             break;
         }
       } catch (err) {