# How to Change Ownership and Location?

**URL:** <https://community.purpleair.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-and-location/9250>\
**Category:** Sensors\
**Created:** [July 21, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.purpleair.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-and-location/9250 "2024-07-21T20:20:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![selinajean](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.purpleair.com/selinajean/32/5116_2.png) [@selinajean](https://community.purpleair.com/u/selinajean)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://community.purpleair.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-and-location/9250/1 "2024-07-21T20:20:29Z")

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I have a PurpleAir sensor at our house. It was crowd-funded in my community two years ago.  
There is now a restaurant in our community which is more centrally located than my house is and I would like to move the sensor to them.

I don’t want to be the one on file for management of the sensor after this move, and would like to transfer its ownership to someone at the restaurant. What are the first steps in wiping the slate clean for this sensor?

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**Author:** ![dwhitemv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.purpleair.com/dwhitemv/32/1508_2.png) [@dwhitemv](https://community.purpleair.com/u/dwhitemv)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://community.purpleair.com/t/how-to-change-ownership-and-location/9250/2 "2024-07-23T02:26:20Z")

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Answered here:

> [@What does it mean to Archive a PurpleAir Sensor?](https://community.purpleair.com/t/what-does-it-mean-to-archive-a-purpleair-sensor/1332):
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> We want to ensure that the data collected from PurpleAir sensors are correctly associated with the sensors’ locations. When a sensor is moved to a new location, its data will need to be archived before the sensor is registered to a new location. This will cause all of the sensor’s historical data to be associated with its previous location, while all new data it records will be associated with its new location. All data is stored under a sensor’s “sensor index.” This 4-6 character code is uniqu…