In plain English
The system is still getting the export ready. The work on that export is ongoing, so it is not finished yet.
In context
Here, it reports that the export is currently being prepared by the system and is not yet finished.
- Situation
- Notification, privacy, data-export, and account-deletion settings
- What it communicates
- reports the current export state
Meaning limits
By itself, this status does not say when the export will finish or whether it will succeed.
Examples
“An hour after the request was submitted, the archive still showed Export in progress.”
“When the queue returned Export in progress, they checked again later instead of downloading the file.”