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If your Y!Group is ready, and your Groups.io group is set up and ready, the steps to initiate the transfer can be pretty quick. But as Duane suggested, that's a pretty big "if". See Transfer a group from Yahoo Groups to Groups.io about those preliminary activities.

First session: Go to the transfer instructions page and click Set Up A New Transfer, fill in the Yahoo Group name, Select the Groups.io group from a drop-list, Click Start Group Transfer Process; go to your Yahoo Group's invite page and invite [email protected]. That part takes a few minutes if you already have decided everything.

Now you can leave your computer for a while while Yahoo sends the invitation, and Groups.io receives it. Normally this would be nearly instantaneous, but Yahoo seems to be slow at getting the invitations out. I've seen it take 12 hours last weekend, your mileage may vary.

Periodically go to the Instructions page, scroll to the bottom, and select your Yahoo Group from the droplist of transfers. Look at the status on that page. You're waiting first for the banner that says that your invitation has been received. If its been more than a day try again. Then you're waiting for the banner that says the invitation has been accepted.

Next session: go back to your Yahoo Group, sort the Manage Members list, promote the transfer agent to moderator; go to the transfer instructions page, scroll to the bottom, select your Yahoo Group from the list, click the Give Go Ahead to Transfer button.

Now you can leave your computer again. Right now this is the part that takes considerable time, as your transfer goes through the queues first to copy the data from the Yahoo Group, then to import the data into the Groups.io group.

Periodically check your transfer status to see its progress, or wait for the transfer completed email.

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