How to fully migrate a Yahoo group to here?
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:28 AM, <jonesmi3774@...> wrote:
That move would have to include everything (membership, conversations, files, photos, attachments, and everything else).A transfer won't include attachments.? You should read through the procedure at /yahootransfer, as well as checking the WIki pages on this group, beginning with /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Transfer-from-Yahoo-Groups ? One thing I'd check on for your group is the amount of storage used by Photos.? It sounds like you may be using a lot, so you'll want to make sure they'll fit here.? You do have the option of automatically reducing the size when they're transferred, if that won't make them unusable for your purposes. I think you'll find that folks here will be glad to help you figure out the details to make the transfer as easy as possible. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:47 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
you might well find that you need a paid - for group rather than a free oneAs of February 13, 2019, all transfers require a Premium group for at least one year.? I believe Mark did this after the last YG! glitch to make it worthwhile to spend the time figuring out how to make things work again. Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
开云体育Really? Is that true? That will effectively put the kybosh on moving many other Yahoo Groups here.Ken ?G i l l e t t _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:05 PM, UKenGB wrote:
Really? Is that true?Yes. See https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/29746177#19795 ? -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:05 AM, UKenGB wrote:
Really? Is that true?Yes, more information in the topic Duane -- Help: /static/help GMF's Wiki: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Search button at the top of Messages list A few site FAQs: /static/pricing#frequently-asked-questions |
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Ken,
As Duane and Bruce pointed out, there is now the requirement to pre-pay one year of Premium in order to use the Easy Group Transfer method. After that year your group can be allowed to automatically revert to Basic (free) if you decide not to extend the Premium service. If there's any value to the time and effort it will save you, then it is a very good deal. Also, it goes to support Groups.io as a product - which does not have advertising or other means of support. No ads, none of the tracking and use of your personal information that goes with advertising. OTOH, you can still DIY the transfer for free. You'll have to copy the content of your Yahoo Group yourself and upload it yourself. Downloading your Y!Group can be made easier by use of 's PG Offline product. For the members list you can invite them for free, or for one month of Premium ($10) you can use the Direct Add feature. Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Mike, We have a members-only Yahoo group that has developed a major problem, in that we can't post or view photos on it.? The
one bit of bad news is that if you can't access your Yahoo Group's
photos, there's a good chance that the Easy Group Transfer agent won't
be able to either. So your transfer might not include your archive of
Photos. The
good news is that if the Yahoo Group's Photos section does become
available again you can re-run the transfer and select to transfer only
the Photos section. Yahoo Help shows a very large number of complaints about the photo problem, and they apparently seem totally content to not fix it. ? Yahoo Groups has been officially unsupported for a few years now. That said, the operations people over there have been fixing things like message delivery and access problems with Files and Photos, but not always promptly. ?Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
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Some (not all) members had issues w/ the YahCHOO! Photos, but they transferred ok (well the newest, ran out of space with the free service). ?
Not transferring the attachments is a major P.I.T.A. because so many of the prior posts are basically useless w/o the associated pix or whatever. I have gone back to YahCHOO! and downloaded the original pix in a very few instances on an as-needed basis.? IO is miles better than before but unfortunately not bullet proof or a panecea (yet, but ever-improving.) |
开云体育Not to be recommended IMHO. In any case one year's Premium payment is hardly going to break the bank. ? Yes it would in our case. We’re club with no budget. Started with OneList, transitioned to YahooGroups!, both were free. ? BobS. ? ? |
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Who you kidding 20 guys at $5
lloyd lehrer, (310)951-9097
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 4:07 PM Robert Schechter <robert.schechter@...> wrote:
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 09:28 AM, <jonesmi3774@...> wrote:
I'd like to discuss moving our group to Groups.io.? That move would have to include everything (membership, conversations, files, photos, attachments, and everything else).? How would we proceed?The transfer is a fairly straightforward process, although some folks seem to struggle with it anyway. See?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/8697?for step-by-step instructions that are perhaps more detailed than those in the transfer page. With fewer groups moving now, I suspect your wait times will be considerably shorter than they were 6 months to a year ago. My main group is also for an astronomical society, and we transferred a little over a year ago. Although we do not use the Premium features, we pay for it anyway, as an investment in the future of groups.io. The service here is so much better than Y!G that there is no comparison, and we appreciate the ad-free approach found here, especially compared to the train wreck introduced with NEO. I guess you could say that we're still on our groups.io honeymoon. Regards, Bruce -- The system Help is your friend.??/static/help |
Note that Mark Fletcher, the creator of groups.io, is also the original creator of onelist some 20+ years ago. The concept of making money from the site is at the heart of what wrested control from Mark and, arguably, has brought Yahoo Groups to what it is today. Maintaining some control for the creator and the users, who provide that content, is one of the important things that groups.io is adamant about. That means that those users who consume a lot of resources pay something up front.Not to be recommended IMHO. In any case one year's PremiumYes it would in our case. We’re club with no budget. Started I believe that saying a club has no budget is a straw man. There are many groups with anonymous benefactors or donors, and many others who can readily find donors. When the two groups that I made Premium found out there was a cost, I had more than enough spontaneous offers to pay for several years at once for both groups. I opted to cover the expense myself for now, using the monthly billing option, but I understand some owners may not be able to do that. There are a great many things in life that go unhad, simply for the lack of asking. If there are truly absolutely no funds available, it's still relatively simple to transfer a group manually. However the cost for Premium for a year is much, much less than the labor of moving a group manually. Dano |
Duane
UKenGB
Bruce Bowman
Shal Farley
KWKloeber
Robert Schechter
lloyd lehrer
D R Stinson