Does historical data persist when unregistering and then re-registering a feature class?

[Simon_GIS]

Hello,

When I temporarily unregister a feature class as versioned in ArcGIS Pro and then later re-register it as versioned, do I still have access to all of its historical data after re-registering?

Best regards

[RobertKrisher]

The short answer is that when you unregister the data as versioned the only thing that is kept in the table is the contents of the default version of your geodatabase. All history and un-posted edits will be lost. In the case of traditional versioning this is the A and D tables, in the case branch versioning this is all the historical rows and rows in non-default versions in the business table. I'm assuming you're not asking about non-versioned archiving and a historical archive.

Which type of versioning? By history do you mean a separate historical archive, or the history you get with something like branch versioning?

[Simon_GIS]

Thank you for your reply.

In my scenario I'm using branch versioning.

You are correct in your assumption about the archiving. My question is about the history that is created through the branch versioning and whether this history persists through unregistering and re-registering as versioned.