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Jan Winspear
Thank you very much Shal - I have started the process with one of my groups - the one currently causing the most problems - they are only small craft groups - 35 members in one and less in the other one so not huge like some I have seen on here - fingers crossed all goes well and thank you for your advice.
Best Wishes Jan I wish I could, but Groups.io can't do much about it if Yahoo's facilities become too dysfunctional to deliver the data. That said, I'd bet that the code behind the transfer agent is more robust than the code that Yahoo loads into your browser to access content. Also we've seen recent reports of success, such as Ruthie's. > - I would like the Database and Photos active in the new group and are > the members transferred easily please? The manage members list is the first thing copied by the transfer agent, and I would guess it to be the least problematic. That is, I've not had trouble accessing my Y!Groups' Manage Members lists via Yahoo's web interface, but I have had trouble with Photos and Files and even Pending messages. The Database and Photos are copied by default. Make sure you've made the appropriate access settings for them in your Groups.io group before initiating the transfer. That is, make sure that they are not disabled. > Currently on one of my groups Photos are not active - does this work > with the transfer or not I'm sure that if the Y!Group's access control for Photos is set to "Off" that the section will simply be skipped by the transfer agent. The rest of the transfer should be unaffected. > Once the transfer is made does that close down the Yahoo group or is > it still available and nothing has changed? There's a big green banner on the instructions page to reassure you: "We do not make any changes to your Yahoo Group. We simply make a copy of everything." /static/yahootransfer Your Y!Group members will receive a "welcome" message from Groups.io when the copying has completed. And if you set up a custom Welcome message (Member Notices tab of your Groups.io group's Settings page) they'll receive that as well. Other than that, informing your Y!Group membership in advance, and any changes you wish to make to the Yahoo Group afterward, are purely up to you. > I hope you won't mind my asking ... Nope, that's what we're here for. Shal |
