Export window: the deadline nobody quoted
An export window is a period for retrieving material before a product closes. In the one documented shutdown in this register, data associated with the product is deleted once a final export window passes, which makes the window a second and earlier deadline than the one everybody quoted. As of 2026-09-22.
| The headline date | The export window |
|---|---|
| Widely quoted | One line near the end of a notice |
| Ends the service | Ends the material |
| Later of the two | Earlier, and the one that binds |
| Affects anybody generating work | Affects anybody who stored it there |
Inclusion rule. Read from the discontinuation notice of the one closure in this register that addressed stored material. Order. The better-known date first, then the one that binds.
1A tool and an archive are different sizes of loss
A team that kept its clips elsewhere lost a tool. A team that left masters inside the product lost the masters. The notice does not distinguish between those positions and the consequences differ enormously.
That is why the register keeps material in its own column rather than treating a shutdown as one event. Capability and content end on different days.
2The window is shared
Every customer in the same position exports during the same weeks. That is not a reason to expect failure and it is a reason not to start on the last day, particularly for large files.
Nothing in the one documented case describes a capacity guarantee for the window. The register records what the notice said and not how the export actually went.
3Only one entry has ever had to publish one
Nobody else in this register has announced an ending, so nobody else has been put in a position to describe an export route. The blanks in that column record an unasked question.
Which makes the single case the assumption worth holding: a window, then deletion. The planning page sets out what to do about it before an announcement rather than after.
A definition rather than a dated entry: no line above is a vendor statement. Where this word turns up in a real notice, the wording and the date are on the one filled cell in that column. Nearby terms: House model, Licensed model, Aggregator.