Stuck Codespace: Export failed due to quota, need recovery options

[fortmanz]

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Hi everyone,

I ran into a tough situation. My Codespace quota is 100% used, and my Codespace is currently stopped. I have important uncommitted code inside that I cannot afford to lose.

When I try to use the "Export changes to a branch" feature, it fails with a billing error.

The main problem: I am currently living in Russia. Due to sanctions and banking restrictions, I do not have access to international payment methods, so I am physically unable to add a card to pay for the extra storage/compute time required to unlock the environment.

Is there any way to just download my files or force the export one last time? I don't need to run the VM or compile anything, I just need to save the text files.

Could the support team potentially enable a temporary 1-hour access or trigger an export from the backend just for data retrieval?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[fortmanz]

The whole problem is because of the unfortunate $4, I'm shocked.