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On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 01:43 PM, Cal wrote:

I'm confused.

You're not alone.

Isn't there a straightforward way to get the messages from a Privacy Dashboard download (into mbox format) uploaded into the messages for a new groups.io group?

No.

I will try my best to explain, if you will try your best to follow along.

It's my understanding that the PG-to-GIO software for Windows will somehow repost the messages from its own SQL database. This software remains in beta. You need to pay $25 to Wilson for the initial SQL download using PG Offline (separate Windows software) -- and do that before Dec 14 -- plus an additional fee of some kind for the PG-to-GIO upload software, when it becomes available. Rumor has it that the latter will cost more than $25, so you'll be spending a minimum of $50 if you want to go this route.

One advantage to this option is that at least some of the group attachments are downloaded to PG Offline, and the upload software might reattach them at the time of re-posting. Donald or Lawrence or Wilson will have to clarify.

Meanwhile, Lena has created a Perl script that will do something similar to upload an mbox file. Full details are here (/g/GroupManagersForum/message/22251). This costs nothing, and in conjunction with your Privacy Dashboard download, seems to accomplish the same objectives as the Personal Groupware suite. The process, however, is substantially more complicated, as you'll see when you read the linked message above.

It's my understanding that neither of these approaches will properly assign "ownership" of each message to its original poster, nor will the posting dates be correct. So...for example...the posting table/calendar on your home page will not reflect the original posting dates, nor will you be able to use the functions of the GIO search engine to filter these old posts by date or subscriber.

If you want that capability, you had to either do the Easy Group Transfer (too late now), or have Mark eventually upload your existing mbox file(s) for you. Mark's previous posts suggest that he would again expect a payment for Premium Yearly ($220) if you want him to do this. If anyone has gotten this done for them recently, they haven't bothered to come back here to GMF and say so.

Of course, you can always just upload your Yahoo message archive to your GIO group as a file, and many people have opted for that. If you want to convert it to human-readable form without all the html and header information, you can open it in and convert it to a flat text file using the . A few other email clients probably also have this capability.

See also Shal's recent post?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/25761.

(How was this done in Easy Transfer?)

For the Easy Group Transfer, Mark did?not do a Privacy Dashboard download of the group. The messages were captured in some other way, probably related to his Chrome browser add-on (). I have personally used this add-on to capture messages, and it does work, when Yahoo itself isn't acting up. The Privacy Dashboard download is more straightforward.

Hope this helps,
Bruce