I know when you remove a user from Asana, Asana creates a project “ Previously Assigned Tasks”. This is helpful to redistribute the work; however, I didn’t see similar functionality with Project Ownership. I ran across a few projects which were set up by users prior to their account deactivation wh…

Was there ever a resolution to this? I came looking for this exact answer (now four years later). I have a deactivated user as project owner for multiple projects and the team members are listed as “comment only”, including myself. So i can’t change anything myself nor archive the project. Would…

Yes! I would love a solution for this myself. I took over the Project Management position at my job and even as a super admin I can’t transfer the ownership of those projects. There’s a lot of long forgotten tasks that I’d love to clean up but can’t because I can’t add myself those older projects. …

I also have this issue. Any update from Asana support would be appreciated!

Hello @Makenna , welcome to the Asana Community Forum! If you are in an Asana Org and the user has been deauthorized you might be able to enable the account again and then the other user can make the project owner changes. Otherwise contact support and they will be able to assist.

Also looking for this feature. About to offboard some employees and I would love to see what projects they are the admin/owner of! Is this really not solved?

Until/if Asana improves this, consider my Forum Leader Tip which offers a strategy: [image] Remove/Offboard/Deprovision (or Pause) a User from an Organization, and what to do beforehand Forum Leaders tips Before you remove a user from your organization it’s good to take s…

Thanks for sharing this @lpb . Does this also apply to a member who was a project admin?

Thanks, @Kemoy_Liburd-Chow . [image] Kemoy_Liburd-Chow: Does this also apply to a member who was a project admin? Yes, it would apply to any user. Basically, you’re just taking over their account before deprovisioning them, so you have access to everything they had access to and can adjust it…

Deactivated Users still listed as project owner

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Until/if Asana improves this, consider my Forum Leader Tip which offers a strategy:

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