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Keeping state, images and access control in vendor-neutral formats and standard protocols so a platform can be swapped.
Verizon will purge all Connect Work data after a final shutdown on March 31, 2027, and recommends finishing exports by December 31, 2026. Each customer's own administrators have to run the exports and carry the files to the next tool, a job that can stretch across weeks of queued requests.
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The upload takes a few minutes of waiting. The repair is a script over /api/recipes; it reparses ingredient text, and difficulty, favourites and scale stay lost, because those never reached Mealie.
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A dev.to post ships a dependency-free Node script that asks three portability questions of every media ID your own database already stores. The most expensive answer, source retention, was fixed at ingest.
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An Entrepreneur columnist argues AI has stripped the technical effort out of switching vendors. The scoping is now cheap enough to be worth doing, though nothing in the record yet shows a core migration finishing faster.
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Article 20 reaches what you typed and what the service logged. The vectors, the profile and the generated report sit in the category the guidance excludes, which makes leaving an AI vendor a contract job.
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Two surveys with different respondents produce the pairing executives now quote: 94 percent worry about lock-in, 6 percent think they could switch. Treating exit like disaster recovery gives that worry an owner and a price.
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