# Preserve recap evidence before its analytics window closes

Original constructed exercise. No real accounts, publications, customers, viewers or experimental results. Keep completed real records private.

## Decide what the available evidence can support

H1 — A fictional video is 220 days old and no watch metric has been inspected. One source’s 180-day guidance would place it beyond that window; the other’s365-day guidance would not. Decision: mark current availability unknown, inspect only the owner’s actual analytics if appropriate, and preserve any genuinely available result with its date. Neither source conflict proves loss or proves successful recovery.

H2 — A fictional non-video post at age 220 days still shows a recorded reaction total, but demographics are unavailable. The categories have different documented windows, so the visible total does not reconstruct the missing demographic breakdown. Safe recap wording describes the saved total and says the demographic field was unavailable at capture. It does not say the audience had zero members in a country.

H3 — A fictional January recap needs impressions at seven days, but the only saved snapshot was captured at day 30. Both may be valid observations of different ages. Decision: use the stated day 30 value or hold the seven-day claim; do not relabel the file, interpolate a historical count or imply an export recovered an observation never saved. A preservation plan improves future evidence, not the past.

## Fill and decide

1. Claim needed and private original-post reference/type
2. Publication time/precision and observation timestamp/timezone
3. Exact metric, unit, filter, cumulative/interval scope and observation age
4. Observed value or unavailable/unknown state; never zero-fill
5. Each policy source/date and any unresolved 180/365-day conflict
6. Actual authorized snapshot path/version and context/readability check
7. Early preservation decision, responsible person and review date; no guarantee
8. Permitted recap wording, missing evidence, private access and deletion plan

Optional reproduction checks only fixed example data, arithmetic, timezone conversions and file identities. It does not assess completed private notes, permission, identities, language or effectiveness.