Incident: Trouble Accessing Historical Messages With Custom Data Retention Policies Enabled
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Slack experienced a minor incident: Incident: Trouble Accessing Historical Messages With Custom Data Retention Policies Enabled. Resolved on Aug 20, 2026.
Incident Timeline
Resolved
We're continuing to work on restoring messages, message edits, and file shares for a limited number of workspaces that were affected by an issue with custom data retention settings. We've fixed what triggered the issue and are running data recovery using backup restoration methods. Custom retention settings have been restored for impacted channels, and we're gradually re-enabling retention jobs.We will provide another update as additional information becomes available.
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Aug 20, 2026 at 10:54 PM UTC
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