Folks -- I am going to revamp and repost this old message, because the Yahoo transfer page just doesn't have the level of detail that a lot of folks appear to need.

My apologies if you have seen much of this before.

Regards,
Bruce

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Here is the process. It is not automated and will take several days. Do not do anything out of order.

1. Go here:?/
   
2. At the bottom of the page, you'll find a link that says "Easy Group Transfer." Click it.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the subsequent page and click on the big blue button labelled "Yahoo Group Instructions."
4. You should be at?/yahootransfer. Read the instructions carefully, including all the Notes. Bookmark this page, too. You will come back here several times.
5. Create your group and configure it according to your needs. Help with group settings can be found here:??/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation [NOTE: Each new group must be reviewed to confirm that it meets the Groups.io Terms of Service. This alone could take up to a day.]?
6. To use the Easy Group Transfer, you must upgrade the group to the Premium Yearly plan.?You can downgrade to the Basic plan later (i.e.: a year from now), if you want.
   To do so, select Admin>Upgrade from the left-side menu bar and click on the blue "View/Change Plan" button. Select "Premium Yearly" (one-time cost of $110) and make your non-refundable payment.?
   (You have now completed Step 1 of the instructions)
   
   
7. Return to the bookmarked page (/yahootransfer). Click on the big green button at the bottom that says "Set Up New Transfer."
8. Enter the name of your Yahoo group and the name of your group in their respective boxes. Do NOT enter any domain information (i.e.:?leave off?@ or @), just the group names.
9. Click the big green "Start Group Transfer Process" button at the bottom of the page.?
   (You have now completed Step 2 of the instructions)
   
   
10. Go to your YAHOO GROUP (not your group) and log in. Send a membership invitation to "[email protected]." If you've never done this before, instructions can be found at??
11. Return to the bookmarked page?(/yahootransfer) once again. Select the group you are transferring from the Existing Transfers menu at bottom right (pull down the menu and click on the group name). A new page will come up, with?a status box at the top. If all is well, it should say something like: "We have received your invitation and will accept it soon. There is no need to send another invite." If it doesn't say that, the invitation did not go through. Go back to Step 10 above and try again.?
    (You have now completed Step 3 of the instructions)
    
    
12. BE PATIENT. Accepting the invitation is the longest step in the process, and requires human intervention (solving a CAPTCHA).?
13. BE EVEN MORE PATIENT.?Do not send additional invitations in an attempt to hurry things up.
14. You will eventually receive an email stating that the Yahoo group invitation has been accepted.?
    (You have now completed Step 4 of the instructions)
    
    
15. Return to your YAHOO GROUP and log in. Find the "[email protected]" member record and promote it to a Moderator. Instructions for this can be found at?.
16. Return to the page that you bookmarked in #4 above one more time. Pull down the menu at bottom right and select the group you're ready to transfer. On the resulting page, click the green "Give Go Ahead to Transfer" button at bottom right.?
    (You have now completed Step 5 of the instructions)
    
    
17. BE PATIENT AGAIN. The ability to actually do the transfer depends on how well Yahoo's servers are operating. We all know what that means, right?
18. You may notice some activity in your new group, which probably reflects partial completion of the process. Do not panic. This is what you wanted to happen!
19. When the transfer is done, you will receive an email from summarizing what it was able to transfer. It will also list whatever things it was?NOT?able to transfer. Until this email is received, you aren't done yet.
20. Rejoice.

Most of us have "been there" with this process before and it all sounds easy in hindsight. Ironically, the same thing that's causing most people to abandon Y!G (server downtime) is exactly the same thing most likely to get in the way of completing the transfer process.?The best time to initiate a transfer is when Yahoo is performing well.?If you procrastinate until things are crashing and burning, delays, incomplete transfers, and other such frustrations can be expected.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 08:37 AM, Kent B. Lewis wrote:

Can it take a day or two for the "[email protected]" member record to show up in Yahoo? I don't see it yet.

Kent -- Yes. In the past, it has sometimes taken much longer than "a day or two" to move forward from here...but under the circumstances I believe Mark is fully committed to processing Yahoo transfers, and is putting most of his other responsibilities on the back burner.

As long as the status box says what it should say in "Step #11" ("we have received your invitation and will accept it soon..."), you should be good to go. Consider double-checking that.

As stated, this wait is the longest step of the process. I don't think it is intrinsically the longest step, although it does involve human intervention (solving Yahoo's ). But at this point you have clearly made a commitment to the transfer process, and for reasons of his own Mark has decided is the best place for him to allow groups to stack up in the transfer queue until he can process them in order.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

[Edited Message Follows]
[Reason: EDITED AND RESENT TO THE GROUP, AS THE COST HAS JUST NOW INCREASED TO $220]

Folks -- Appended below please find detailed instructions on how to conduct a transfer using the Easy Group Transfer method.

See also the new FAQ at?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/FAQ-on-Moving-from-YahooGroups
To check status of an ongoing transfer:??/g/GroupManagersForum/message/19948

I will be re-posting this periodically for the benefit of all the new people that continue to flood in. My apologies for the inevitable dupes in your email inbox.

Regards,
Bruce

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Here is the process. It is not fully automated and will take several days. Do not do anything out of order.

1. Go here:?/
   
2. At the bottom of the page, you'll find a link that says "Easy Group Transfer." Click it.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the subsequent page and click on the big blue button labelled "Yahoo Group Instructions."
4. You should be at?/yahootransfer. Read the instructions carefully, including all the Notes. Bookmark this page, too. You will come back here several times.
   
   
5. Create your group and configure it according to your needs. Help with group settings can be found here:??/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Quick-Start-for-Group-Formation [NOTE: Each new group must be reviewed to confirm that it meets the Groups.io Terms of Service. This alone could take up to a day.]?
6. To use the Easy Group Transfer, you must upgrade the group to the Premium Yearly plan.?You can downgrade to the Basic plan later (i.e.: a year from now), if you want.
   To do so, select Admin>Upgrade from the left-side menu bar and click on the blue "View/Change Plan" button. Select "Premium Yearly" (one-time cost of $110 $220) and make your payment.?
   (You have now completed Step 1 of the instructions)
   
   
7. Return to the bookmarked page (/yahootransfer). Click on the big green button at the bottom that says "Set Up New Transfer."
8. Enter the name of your Yahoo group and the name of your group in their respective boxes. Do NOT enter any domain information (i.e.:?leave off?@ or @), just the group names.
9. Click the big green "Start Group Transfer Process" button at the bottom of the page.?
   (You have now completed Step 2 of the instructions)
   
   
10. Go to your YAHOO GROUP (not your group) and log in. Send a membership invitation to "[email protected]." If you've never done this before, instructions can be found at??
11. Return to the bookmarked page?(/yahootransfer) once again. Select the group you are transferring from the Existing Transfers menu at bottom right (pull down the menu and click on the group name). A new page will come up, with?a status box at the top. If all is well, it should say: "We've received the invite to your group and will accept it soon. There is no need to send another invite." If it doesn't say that, the invitation did not go through. Go back to Step 10 above and try again.?
    (You have now completed Step 3 of the instructions)
    
    
12. BE PATIENT. Accepting the invitation is the longest step in the process, and requires human intervention (solving a CAPTCHA).?
13. BE EVEN MORE PATIENT.?Do not send additional invitations in an attempt to hurry things up.
14. You will eventually receive an email stating that the Yahoo group invitation has been accepted. Continue waiting until you receive this email.
    (You have now completed Step 4 of the instructions)
    
    
15. Return to your YAHOO GROUP and log in. Find the "[email protected]" member record and promote it to a Moderator. Instructions for this can be found at?.
16. Return to the page that you bookmarked in #4 above one more time. Once again, pull down the Existing Transfers menu at bottom right and select the group you're ready to transfer. On the resulting page, click the green "Give Go Ahead to Transfer" button.?
    (You have now completed Step 5 of the instructions)
    
    
17. BE PATIENT AGAIN. The ability to actually do the transfer depends on how well Yahoo's servers are operating. We all know what that means, right?
18. You may notice some activity in your new group, which probably reflects partial completion of the process. Do not panic. This is what you wanted to happen!
19. When the transfer is done, you will receive an email from summarizing what it was able to transfer. It will also list whatever things it was?NOT?able to transfer. Until this email is received, you aren't done yet.
20. Rejoice.

Most of us have "been there" with this process before and it all sounds easy in hindsight. Ironically, the same thing that's causing most people to abandon Y!G (server downtime) is exactly the same thing most likely to get in the way of completing the transfer process.?The best time to initiate a transfer is when Yahoo is performing well.?If you procrastinate until things are crashing and burning, delays, incomplete transfers, and other such frustrations can be expected.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
--
The system Help is your friend.??/static/help

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 01:00 PM, Bernie/Ohio/GL-033 wrote:

I am one of two owners of our new Groups.io presence.? The other owner is the one who paid the $110 fee.

It doesn't matter who pays the fee, as long as it is paid, and the group thus has the proper payment status (Premium YEARLY).

After receiving Groups’ acceptance of our invitation (Step 14), and promoting [email protected] to Moderator (Step 15), I went to the Step 4 listed transfer page but the “Existing Transfers” dropdown is blank, even clicking to actually open it up.? Nothing shows where I expected to see my group’s name.? Consequently, I can’t proceed with Step 16.? Is this another waiting point in the process?

Ah. That's a horse of a different color, as they say. Providing the actual symptoms really helps with troubleshooting.

The same person who started the transfer has to complete it. You cannot switch back and forth, because has no way to map one account to another, even if they both own the group. This has the side benefit of keeping two people from attempting to transfer the same group(s) at the same time.

So assuming you are the one who started all this, and suddenly you can no longer see anything in the Existing Transfers list, it's probably because you're now logged in under a different email address than you were when you started. The email address is the account identifier; and as far as is concerned, those two email addresses are two different people.

Please see the following wiki page:?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Group-Content-Is-Missing? The page does not discuss this in the context of a group transfer, but the concept is the same.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

Awesome, Bruce! I appreciate the detailed instruvtions! I used them!
Our status has been updated to awaiting transfer of files from Yahoo!

Now I am ready for the chili! ?