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uploader.jp is deleting all of its data at 11:59 p.m. on November 25, 2026. That leaves just under three weeks. The doujin files, tools and personal projects that have lived on the service for years all vanish in that same moment.
Alongside the shutdown, the operator has pointed users toward BOOTH and GitHub and announced their own retirement at the same time. Nothing about existing files gets handed off anywhere automatically. If there’s something you want to keep, the reality is that you have to go grab it yourself.
Tools to help with that last-minute rescue have started appearing. An archive index and a bulk download tool have been published, which makes it far easier to track down which file sits where. At the same time, the operator has posted a warning about excessive automated access, and download errors are in fact happening constantly.
So we’re in an awkward stretch where you can hurry, but hurrying too hard means nothing downloads. This article lays out what to do, and in what order, before the November 25 cutoff.
When is uploader.jp deleting its data, and what disappears?
The deadline for data deletion is 11:59 p.m. on November 25, 2026. Past that timestamp, files hosted on uploader.jp can no longer be accessed.
Pay attention to the fact that it’s specified down to the minute, not just the date. Reading it as “the whole of the 25th is fine” is technically correct, but it also means right up until the date flips over and not a second more. If you were planning to work through this calmly over a weekend, set your own deadline somewhere around the 22nd or 23rd.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Full data deletion | November 25, 2026, 11:59 p.m. |
| Destinations named by the operator | BOOTH, GitHub |
| Tools that help with saving | An archive index and a bulk download tool (both published by third parties) |
| Warning from the operator | A notice about excessive automated access has been posted |
| Current situation | Download errors are happening constantly |
Why are downloads failing right now?
Because the shutdown notice sent everyone rushing to save things at once, and the load on the server has shot up.
With a bulk download tool now in circulation, you have situations where a single person is pulling dozens of files simultaneously. The more convenient the tool, the easier it is for load to pile up in one place. The operator posted that warning about excessive automated access precisely because when that kind of fetching stacks up, nothing downloads for anybody.
The fix is unglamorous. Turn down your parallel connections. When something fails, wait a bit and retry it one file at a time. Aim for late night or early morning when fewer people are around. The more of a hurry you’re in, the more likely it is that slowing yourself down finishes the job faster. Having three weeks left is also the last stretch in which you can afford to wait at all.
What should you prioritize saving?
Prioritize whatever has nowhere else to live. Tools that creators were distributing on their own, and assets that were never redistributed anywhere, sit at the very top.
Anything that’s been announced as moving to BOOTH or GitHub may well be obtainable at the new home. In other words, you can chase it down later. Conversely, works by creators who have already stopped making things, or download-only items where nothing but the announcement remains, genuinely have nowhere to go once November 25 passes.
This is exactly where the published archive index earns its keep. Downloading everything isn’t realistic, but with an index you can sort out in advance which items are the ones you’ll never see again. Narrowing it down with the index before you start pulling also gives you a better success rate than firing off a blind bulk grab.
How should you split things between BOOTH and GitHub?
The natural division is BOOTH for distributed works, paid or free, and GitHub for anything that’s mostly code or text.
The operator presumably named those two because both are free for individuals to use and both look likely to stick around for the long haul. A general-purpose file host like uploader.jp can end because of one operator’s circumstances. Which is exactly what happened here, bundled together with a retirement announcement.
From a creator’s side, this whole episode is a lesson in not entrusting your distribution to a single place. Simply keeping your distribution page and the actual files on different services leaves you a thread to pull if one of them disappears. And as a downloader, keeping a record of where each file you grabbed came from will save you later.
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The bottom line: the deadline is 11:59 p.m. on November 25, so move this weekend
uploader.jp deletes all data at 11:59 p.m. on November 25, 2026. That’s just under three weeks away, and once it passes the files become inaccessible. The operator has announced the move to BOOTH and GitHub along with their retirement, and nothing carries over automatically.
Use the published archive index to sort out the things you’ll never find again first, then run bulk downloads with your parallel connections dialed down, a little at a time. With the operator warning about excessive automated access and download errors already happening constantly, the more simultaneous grabs you panic-add, the less comes through. Set your personal deadline at the 22nd or 23rd and start this weekend. That’s the realistic plan.
A file host shutting down means roughly the same thing as the work itself disappearing. The saving grace this time is that there’s more than three weeks of notice, and that an index and bulk-grab tooling have shown up to help. Thinking back to the era of services that just went dark one day with no warning, that’s genuinely a big deal. Still, there’s an irony in those same tools generating the load that’s causing the download errors. Nobody can save everything, so the place to start is picking out the handful of things that are irreplaceable to you. …Moments like this are when I think the old habit of burning everything to CD-R was the strongest move of all.
The deadline is 11:59 p.m. on November 25. Dial down the parallel connections, narrow it down with the index, and move this weekend.
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