¿ªÔÆÌåÓýR Joe,
Isn't it lovely when some thing works well.
Have a look at Attachments in your YG site , those do not get transfered. These are thing that
were attached to emails, most are icons and parts of signatures but in my case some are
valuable assets.
I haven't done this yet but plan to copy each attachment and paste into the Groups.io group into?
Files. The new file name should include the new message number for correlation with the old
attachment name if possible.
OK,
Tony?
On 25 Sep 2018 at 21:37, R. Joe Brandon wrote about :
Subject : [GMF] Smooth migration of ~18,500 a
The migration process was a little slow to start. And it was not until I sent a second one that
Groups.io acknowledged receipt. The only problems I ran into was after the invitation was
accepted I went to make the transfer account a moderator...and that was not an option! I was
logged in on my owner account and even reloaded the page, still nothing. But Groups.io support
was responding quickly to my questions. I had to leave for a bit and when I came back I tried to
see I could make a random account moderator and the option was there. So I went back to the
Transfer account and now it showed up. I made them a moderator, notified support, clicked
"start transfer". It was late EST but I thought I should compose a messsge to my community
about what was going to happen, hopefully, in the next 72 hours, so they were not surprised by
the message from Groups.io.
I finally finished my email sent it out via YahooGroups and then almost flipped out when I saw a "Welcome to your new group" message! I clicked through and sure enough while I was writing they were transferring! The timing was such that my message actually did not make the transfer! There is some good irony in that I believe. My community of 18,500+ (Yahoo numbers) establishes on Onelist.com in 1999 transferred over ~11,000 active members and ~6,000 were considered bouncing so my "new" number is ~11,000. I always suspected the Yahoo number wasn't counting properly anyway and this new number seems solid. Of the ~10,700 messages on my board it looks like ~10,500 transferred (even though what I recalled reading in the report was only a few messages did not transfer). But I am satisfied with that level of success in transfer. My *only* quibble is that I wish they would insert a "message not successfully transferred" in the sequence so that the message tally total was the same. I use the message number as my invoice number so I will have to use a temporary unique is until I get back out of my already used numbers :-) Small inconvenience and not an issue. The best part? I have received ZERO complaints here in the first 24 hours. And considering Archaeologists can be a bit cranky about "change" (it comes with the territory lol!) I consider that absolutely amazing. This morning, like any other day, a posting came in, I approved it and seconds later saw the email come in. I checked my observation accounts and the same result, something YahooGroups was no longer delivering on consistently and which had forced my had to make the "Jump". I have been dreading this inevitable move for years and feared my archive of messages would be lost and of course trying to scrape all the user accounts has been a major challenge for years. I wish I had made this move sooner. My hats off to the Groups.io staff who made this work. And a nod to the old staff at Yahoo (& Onelist & eGroups) who made it work as well as it has for my 19 years. Best, R. Joe ??
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