You've probably seen many of the references to PG offline. From your comments I think you have a use case beyond just backing up the Y! group (search etc), but in any case; PGO (subject to Yahoo not melting) would give you a second copy of your group, and if both GIO and the PGO download report the same messages then you can be fairly certain you're getting everything Y! is prepared to let you have. Worth a $25?punt, to be honest.
Hi, Derek.? I actually had somehow managed to miss PG Offline in all my research!? Thanks so much for bringing it up!? I am planning to DL it right now and follow your suggestion.? I watched the vid on it and it looks exactly what I need with its sorting and organizational functionality!? It doesn't appear to be "functional" in group terms but more of an archival format, right?? But that's mainly what I'm looking for anyway.? I already have the group here, if that want's to get busy again. ?
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As mentioned, Y! have not had a stellar record over the years, it is quite possible they've lost records here and there. Mark & co. can only work with what they're given, after all, so if the transfer glitched or Y! have lost records, game over.
I guess it would be good in a way to know that whatever damage may have occurred was on yahoo's end. I may be in the minority, but while working on the yahoo group, I never noticed any such glitches, repeated/copied messages or deleted messages.? But maybe it is a loss that wouldn't have been noticed unless searching for a specific thing and it was no longer there, for ex.
I had questioned whether another run at the migration process here might yield a higher gain of messages (if any were in fact missed); I'm not technical so I don't know how these things work.? But, anyway, thanks to you, I'll have another go with Personal Groupware Offline, if I can work that one out, so we'll see.
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Y! themselves give you an option to download all if your group data, but from reports here it's a bit hit and miss, takes some time to be available and it's not clear if it'll still be possible after the 14th, but you could at least make the request.
I already DLed the group on this basic computer that just fell into my hands and was a friend's.? I've been trying to get it up to speed.? It doesn't have office suite or anything to read the files (zipped) they gave me, and I'm not even sure how much memory this thing has, so I'm not sure what I downloaded yet!? After PG I'll look into free alternatives to Word. ? Not sure how I feel about using the online free version.? I really like to work offline when that's an option.? I'd like something with easily convertible file types for sharing and interfacing with MS products.? Open to any rec's. ?
Really excited about the promise of PGO, though.? Thanks again!!
Droxine
