Membership change

SarahGreaud

If we change our membership from group to student, will we lose all of our data? Or will it transfer with our membership change?

Robert_LeClair

So ArcGIS Pro licensing is used to start and use the application.  There are 3 tiers, Basic, Standard and Advanced and within those tiers - single use, concurrent use and named user licensing models.  Each tier, Basic, Standard, Advanced, provides more and more functionality with regards to geodatabase behaviors and geoprocessing tools to name a few.  If you change your ArcGIS Pro licensing from an organzation (i.e. group I presume) to a standalone student license (i.e. single use license), the existing data is not affected, deleted, or moved.  If it's a file geodatabase, it remains on disk where it's stored - say a C: drive.  You can definitely copy/paste it to another PC.  Same logic for shapefiles.  Data does not automatically transfer to a new location based upon licensing changes.  You have to do the data management.