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Milt,

--How do we move the data to Groups.io?

For the membership list, you can use Invite, or upgrade your group to use Direct Add.

For the messages and other content that's less clear. If Big Tent had exported the message content as an mbox format file there'd be a greater chance that [email protected] could import it for you. If they have to figure out some ad hoc format that BigTent invented then that would impede the effort.

--Can we get help from Groups.io Support in doing that?

No better way to find out than to ask [email protected] - I'd be interested in hearing what they have to say on the subject.

--When put up the data, can/will it be broken down into individual
posts/threads as it originally appeared on BigTent?

That depends. If support adds your message archive to your group's Messages section then it would be. But if you can't get support to do that then no, most likely not.

The brief description you gave indicates that the archive may be in HTML format, intended to be loaded into a web page as a static display of the messages. If so, then the question would be whether you would find that presentation acceptable.

--Should we try to add a part of the file first, and test it? Or move
the whole file?

Two things you might do with it are to upload it (whole) to your group's Files section, or to copy/paste it into your group's Wiki section, likely broken up somehow relating to the structure in the archive.

A more challenging task would be to copy/paste each individual post in the archive into a New Topic or Reply in your group's Messages section. That would likely be too tedious and error-prone to do by hand, but someone with appropriate skills may be able to do it through Groups.io's API. The downside with this is that I don't think you can avoid having these created posts carry the current date/time (rather than the original) and the name of the person creating them (rather than the original poster). As far as I know only support can create the messages with copied original metadata.

--Then should our moderators beta test it and see how it flies?

Certainly. You'll need to delve into that archive a bit to see what you actually have and what you can do with it. At worst you'll need to delete what you've uploaded so far and start again as you try different approaches. Just make sure to keep the original copy of the archive unmodified so that you don't accidentally lose any data.

Shal


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