# How do I transfer ownership of a private project?

**URL:** <https://forum.asana.com/t/how-do-i-transfer-ownership-of-a-private-project/473417>\
**Category:** Ask the Community\
**Tags:** projects\
**Created:** [6 July 2023 21:45 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/how-do-i-transfer-ownership-of-a-private-project/473417 "2023-07-06T21:45:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![karmela.lejarde](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/karmela.lejarde/32/37939_2.png) [@karmela.lejarde](https://forum.asana.com/u/karmela.lejarde)\
**Post date:** [6 July 2023 21:45 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/how-do-i-transfer-ownership-of-a-private-project/473417/1 "2023-07-06T21:45:38Z")

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Hello everyone, I have a colleague who left the company. She is the owner of a private project, and I need to transfer ownership of that project to me. I am a member of the project, and I am also an admin in our enterprise account. We need to deprovision her from our enterprise account because we need the seat, but I understand from lurking about in the forums that if we deprovision her, all her private projects also disappear. Can you let me know how I can switch ownership of her private project to me? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/larry_berger_lpb/32/276017_2.png) [@Larry\_Berger\_lpb](https://forum.asana.com/u/Larry_Berger_lpb)\
**Post date:** [7 July 2023 03:28 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/how-do-i-transfer-ownership-of-a-private-project/473417/2 "2023-07-07T03:28:46Z")

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To switch ownership, you can contact Asana support team ([How to contact our Support Team ✉](https://forum.asana.com/t/how-to-contact-our-support-team/87774)), and they should be able to help you.

Another approach: Before you deprovision, commandeer the colleague’s login and make the change yourself, while logged in as them.

For more info before you deprovision, see my Forum Leader Tip:

> [@Remove/Offboard/Deprovision (or Pause) a User from an Organization, and what to do beforehand](https://forum.asana.com/t/remove-offboard-deprovision-a-user-from-an-organization-and-what-to-do-beforehand/202645):
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> Before you remove a user from your organization it’s good to take several steps to avoid possibly losing some item access (which could require Asana Support to restore). I couldn’t find this information in one place, and since it’s hard to remember when only periodically needed, I decided to create this as a reference. Before removing the user, consider carrying out these steps for any items you care about: Note: These steps are easiest to carry out if you log in with the credentials of the…

Thanks,

Larry

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/asana/user_avatar/forum.asana.com/system/32/276370_2.png) [@system](https://forum.asana.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [14 July 2023 03:29 UTC](https://forum.asana.com/t/how-do-i-transfer-ownership-of-a-private-project/473417/3 "2023-07-14T03:29:36Z")

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