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Import content from a groups.io group that's closing?

 

A Mac User group that had been using the free groups.io interface is closing its doors.? I'm in a sister group that is absorbing some of its members.? Our group has a professional groups.io account and we would like to archive some of the closing group's message content in our account.? The closing group has messages and one subgroup.? We'd like to archive the main group's messages and bring the subgroup message content into one of our extant subgroups.?
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Can we do that, and if so how?
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Jonathan Bernstein
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 12:41 PM, J. Bernstein wrote:
Can we do that, and if so how?
I'd suggest that the first thing you do is ask the owner if he'd make you a mod with all privileges.? Then you can export the entire group to save it on your computer.? If he's going to hold off awhile, you could contact support@... to see if Mark would be willing to "move" the messages directly to a subgroup for you.? Barring that, you may be able to import the messages yourself using Lena's script once you've got the messages, if it still exists.? Keep in mind that using the script will cause all messages imported to be credited to you.
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Duane
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Lots of detailed information can be found in the Owners Manual and Members Manual.
 

On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 01:41 PM, J. Bernstein wrote:
We'd like to archive the main group's messages and bring the subgroup message content into one of our extant subgroups.?
You can export the messages as an mbox file. It's somewhat readable "as is" in a text editor.
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Some folks have been successful importing that using Lena's Perl script. I am not one of them, although I admit I didn't try very hard. It takes awhile to run, because it reposts them to the [sub]group under your name, 40 messages per hour. I don't know how successful groups.io is rebuilding the database from that (threading them back into topics, making things searchable, etc.).
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In the past, Mark has sometimes imported messages for someone in return for paying for a year of Premium ($220).
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Another option is to import it as a folder in your email client. Several common clients have that capability. Having done that, you can print them all out as one long PDF and put it in your Files area. That's what I did with several groups when Yahoo Groups shut down. A caveat: I think you may be overestimating the utility of those old messages. I have no evidence that anyone has ever downloaded those PDF files, much less read them.?
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Hope this helps,
Bruce
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Thanks Duane.? We have the files.? A fellow from the other group downloaded them and sent them to me.? So in hope that the moderators here include Mark, I asked if he would move them to our subgroup and will see if I get a response.?
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Jonathan
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 01:58 PM, Duane wrote:

On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 12:41 PM, J. Bernstein wrote:
Can we do that, and if so how?
I'd suggest that the first thing you do is ask the owner if he'd make you a mod with all privileges.? Then you can export the entire group to save it on your computer.? If he's going to hold off awhile, you could contact support@... to see if Mark would be willing to "move" the messages directly to a subgroup for you.? Barring that, you may be able to import the messages yourself using Lena's script once you've got the messages, if it still exists.? Keep in mind that using the script will cause all messages imported to be credited to you.
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Duane
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Lots of detailed information can be found in the Owners Manual and Members Manual.
 

Bruce, many thanks.? We got the files, and I opened the .mbox in textedit and it did render it, but pretty messily.? So worst case- as you say - is save as a file and upload it to files of the subgroup.? I hope I did as for Mark's help by emailing this group's moderators, as it would be so helpful to render these to our groups.io subgroup the same way they look new.?
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Jonathan
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 05:49 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 01:41 PM, J. Bernstein wrote:
We'd like to archive the main group's messages and bring the subgroup message content into one of our extant subgroups.?
You can export the messages as an mbox file. It's somewhat readable "as is" in a text editor.
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Some folks have been successful importing that using Lena's Perl script. I am not one of them, although I admit I didn't try very hard. It takes awhile to run, because it reposts them to the [sub]group under your name, 40 messages per hour. I don't know how successful groups.io is rebuilding the database from that (threading them back into topics, making things searchable, etc.).
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In the past, Mark has sometimes imported messages for someone in return for paying for a year of Premium ($220).
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Another option is to import it as a folder in your email client. Several common clients have that capability. Having done that, you can print them all out as one long PDF and put it in your Files area. That's what I did with several groups when Yahoo Groups shut down. A caveat: I think you may be overestimating the utility of those old messages. I have no evidence that anyone has ever downloaded those PDF files, much less read them.?
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Hope this helps,
Bruce
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 05:49 PM, J. Bernstein wrote:
So in hope that the moderators here include Mark, I asked if he would move them to our subgroup and will see if I get a response.?
Mark Fletcher is not affiliated with this group and does not monitor it. Send your request to [email protected]? As I stated previously, you will probably have to pay ahead for a year of Premium ($220) to get this done. But maybe he's feeling generous today.
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Regards,
Bruce

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