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Some repositories are for the individual owners only. They are the only ones with access to the repositories and when they leave, their repositories will be removed. It will still take the full 8 weeks for the repository to be deleted but no one will receive notifications since the primary owner is inactive and there are no other alternate owners defined.
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If no one claims the repository within the 4 week notification period during which each of the active alternate owners will receive a notification email every Sunday, the repository will be archived. An archived repository is one that has been moved to an alternate location and is no longer accessible to the users. The data has not been deleted but no further access can be made to it.
The repository status will be changed from NOTIFY to ARCHIVING and then to ARCHIVED.
During this period, which also lasts 4 weeks, each active alternate owner will receive an email each Sunday stating that the repository has been archived and how to claim it.
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