....the only data immune from the daily purge is those checks that ran longer.......”
When did the (up to & including 3 day) delay ones get deleted?
On the day after?
Many thanks for your cogent observation and setting things straight!
When a query is complete (whether it took 10 seconds or 3 days0, it goes into the NICS Delete Queue. And whenever the next purge is run (it runs every 24 hours), the query is deleted. . .