When I leave Harvard, what may happen to the content in my ArcGIS Online account?

As a user, when your Harvard ID expires, you won't be able to access your AGOL account anymore, but your content will remain for 3 years, after which it will be deleted. You have the following options:

  1. Download a copy of your content to your local computer or external disk drive. Please contact the CGA if you have questions about this process.
  2. Transfer ownership of your content to another Harvard user before your Harvard ID expires. Using the ArcGIS Online Assistant, login to your account, select the content to be transferred, pick "Copy Items", and have the new owner login to complete the copy. This can also be used to transfer your content to a user in another organization.
  3. You may also wait until when you settle into your new organization and activate your new AGOL account to activate a transfer. Then contact the CGA and ask us to change content ownership to your new account outside of Harvard. This assumes that your new organization also has an organizational account of AGOL. Please note that the free, personal AGOL accounts can't receive content transferred from organizational AGOL accounts.
  4. Abandon the content to let CGA staff purge them after 3 years of inactivity.