Yahoo owners & Moderators,
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Folks, you still have the ability to tell others your group has MOVED from Yahoo to GIO.?
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On your Yahoo ABOUT page, there is a Group Description.? You can make it with color fonts and walking banners if needed to get the attention of site visitors on that page who may want to subscribe there.
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Here is a good example to check out for getting people's attention;
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Also, on one of the groups I belong to, the owner has an outlook AUTOMATIC email reminder sent to his group twice a week, telling folks to unsubscribe from the Yahoo Group and join on GIO. Thus, in a month of inactivity, a minimum of 6 emails in the groups message base were to unsubscribe and join GIO with all of the joining details.

Doing these 2 actions setup once will be a continuous reminder to folks looking for your group on Yahoo.?
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Here's a sample of the automatic reminder. ?
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Save this message!!!!!!!!
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There are several ways to leave the list on Yahoo. Then to join us on GroupsIO at ?
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Click Here to unsubscribe:
mailto:compact-tractor-list-unsubscribe@...
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Or send email to:
compact-tractor-list-unsubscribe@...
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You can also click on this link to leave via the yahoo groups site:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/compact-tractor-list/join?referer=1&unsub_disp=1
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Please save this info and use it if you decide to leave the list.


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3 ways to get into Yahoo Groups (YG).
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1. If you have a Yahoo email, login via the main Yahoo page.? This automatically gets you logged into Yahoo Groups too. :)? Once in the Yahoo Mail client, in the upper right corner is the box of DOTS.? Click on that and then click on SEE MORE.? One this new page scroll to GROUPS.? Now you are in. :)

2. Yahoo main page.? Just do a SIGN IN. Then on the top menu bar click on the more ...? Next pick Groups.? Now you are in. :)

3. web search for Yahoo Groups.? Sign in and you are good.

Basically, just sign into Yahoo and find groups.

The ONLY thing left in YG is the ABOUT page.? and the ability to subscribe or unsubscribe.?? Nothing else remains.? It's all DELETED. (or removed from our access permanently.)
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Now, on the WAYBACKMACHINE folks can find a FEW things to still snag. :)??? It's one reason why the ARCHIVE TEAM was working so hard getting a clone of the groups before Verizon closed their access.

BMaverick

[mod note: the logic behind letting this thread continue is that the OP was seeking assistance moving his group to Groups.io. Otherwise messages with content purely about Yahoo Groups should be directed to the original GMF there: groupmanagersforum@... ]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 09:45 PM, Larry McDavid wrote:

But, I can't find a way to get directly to the photo album thumbnail in the 35 pages of Photo albums.

Is there a way to do this?

Duane's answer ("No") is unfortunately an accurate summary of the situation.

When the group of which I am a moderator migrated almost exactly 2 years ago we had to carry out a rapid weeding of the Photos to get within our 1GB storage allocation. On closer examination of what was retained it became obvious that after several years of benign neglect on Yahoo some radical action was required to sort out what we had into some semblance of order by removing the fuzzy, the duplicates (or near duplicates) the pointless, and so on. Near - duplicates were a real problem, often spread out over a number of Albums with often largely meaningless titles. Most of the clutter was down to members being able to create albums and upload into them without moderator intervention; this continues to be the case because we don't want to be heavy - handed in any way about what is suitable and what isn't. (NB: not suitable doesn't mean what you think it might!)

Albums were renamed and their contents shuffled about to create some sort of order out of the chaos. In the end I made an external index which resides in our wiki, with each entry being a link to the relevant Album; in a few cases the index links to individual photos within an album, and in some others the links are to sources of photo material hosted elsewhere than Groups.io - with the various outside site owners' permission of course.

We have not prevented members being able to create and fill albums, which means that over time disorder becomes a problem again so when the total occupied space creeps up a bit I sneak in after dark (so to speak) and get rid of it again; no - one seems to notice, which makes me wonder just how much our members actually use the Photo Archive.

Yes; it was a lot of work initially but the result is a much tidier and user - friendly system. I keep meaning to ask Mark if he could make the "front page" of the Photos Section either Owner - configurable or at the very least an alpha - numeric list of Album Titles; with a bit of care they can be listed in any order the owner wants by putting something like "01, 02...) in front of the Album Title.

For obvious reasons now is not the time to make any such request... and I'm not sure how much traction it would get anyway.

Chris

Erik,

Across the top of the screen is a photo of about 20 happy people
welcoming me ...

Above that photo you should be able to see a banner with black text on an ivory background. Read it, and click through the Learn More link

but the only menu item I's allowed to see is "About".

That's the only page that is left, apart from the pages from the Membership and Management links.

In the bar under the photo, next to About, you should see Membership in any group of which you are at least a member. And you should see Management in any group of which you are a mod or owner.

All my YaHoo groups are listed down the left side of the screen when I
click the top left icon.

When visiting one of your groups make sure the URL in your browser's address bar says /info at the end. If you don't see the Membership or Management menus, refresh the page until you do.

If none of that works for you, then I'm out of ideas.

What do I need to get into Yahoo? I've got one last forum to install
as a sub-group and I need to get the membership roll. Then I'm done,
finished, on to happy days!

See the instructions here for downloading your manage members list:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Moving-to-Groups.io#How-do-I-download-my-Yahoo-Group27s-Members-list3F

Shal


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See here -?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Moving-to-Groups.io#Uploading-a-message-archive

Frances
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GMF Wiki: (unofficial) Help for members (and would-be members) and group managers

"un-block" is one word, not two

Blocked means you switched his/her posting-status to "override - can not post"

Banned means you removed him/her and made it impossible for them to rejoin



groetjes, Ronaldo

oops, should have been @yahoogroups.com.

if you put yahoo groups in the search box on this group, you can read all about it here.

Terri

Hello,

So I received my group's data from the download request.

Files open right up but messages have names like mbox.

How do I open them and see the messages?

Thank you in advance,

Lorne

Denise,

However, I thought my $200 would include text & data transfer, rather
than the equivalent of a blank outline.

There was a series of steps to follow, it sounds like you missed one somewhere. A "blank outline" sounds like Step 1 - you had to create a Groups.io group to transfer into.

As Duane said, your only recourse now is to contact [email protected] - GMF is a user-to-user forum, there are no Groups.io employees here.

In the best case Groups.io may have managed to copy your Yahoo Group before Yahoo removed all member content, and there's merely some confusion about where they put it.

In the worst case they did not snag a copy. In which case a refund is all they can do for you.

I don't want to invite my members to join here until
there's something ready to go.

From this point it is up to you to populate the content of your Groups.io group. There is still time for you to request a download from Yahoo:


You can upload whatever you get to your Groups.io group. See the information here:
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Moving-to-Groups.io

Best of luck.

Shal


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Eric, there's a GMF group on Yahoo, it's public.? Posts are all gone though.? Yahoo has deleted everything on groups, so there are no messages to see.
If you want to post to groupmanagersforum@...,?it will all be explained.? I really miss the archives for people to search to read about all this good stuff.? It's public, so maybe I can send you some links to some posts.

Terri

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 03:40 PM, Duane wrote:

No.? There's no way to keep only some people from accessing a file without limiting access to all but moderators.? No one but the file owner or a moderator can delete it though.

You could remove the privileges from these moderators so all they can do is add files and view the "moderator only" files.
~Sandy

Last week-end I had basically a computer meltdown. My two Android devices stopped working with Yahoo. I now can get into YaHoo so far as to see the groups that I belong to. However, that's as far as I can get. Across the top of the screen is a photo of about 20 happy people welcoming me but the only menu item I's allowed to see is "About". All my YaHoo groups are listed down the left side of the screen when I click the top left icon.?

What do I need to get into Yahoo? I've got one last forum to install as a sub-group and I need to get the membership roll. Then I'm done, finished, on to happy days!

The bizarre thing is that I'm asking here for help because the Yahoo 24/7 help desk requires payment. Sort of a good reason we all left. I figure that there are no more experienced folk in matters of Yahoo than the folks who are here!

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 08:05 AM, Lena wrote:

Or middle-click (press down on the wheel).

Another good day, I learned something new!? I should mention that whether you immediately get switched to the new tab depends on the settings in your browser.? I have mine set to open new tabs in the background, so I can use this tip for as many links as I want on one page before switching to those tabs to do anything.

Duane
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 07:28 AM, Denise Bradshaw wrote:

have patiently waited over a week to see if the transfer "took"

I'm not sure what you did, but it wasn't a transfer.? That page has been disabled (later removed) since Dec 5.? You can contact support and they'll refund your money.

Anything you'll have on your group will be what you furnish - files, photos, etc.

Duane
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 08:48 AM, Shal Farley wrote:

What I normally do with any page that has a lot of links to follow (and a list
certainly qualifies) is open the list item by using Ctrl+Shift+LeftClick
instead of plain LeftClick. In most browsers this opens the link in a new tab,
and switches you to that tab. In Firefox this can also be done with RightClick
over the link then select "Open Link in New Tab".

Or middle-click (press down on the wheel).

开云体育

OK, have patiently waited over a week to see if the transfer "took" - invitation was accepted & changed to moderator status JUST before the deadline.? However, I thought my $200 would include text & data transfer, rather than the equivalent of a blank outline.? It's HSCI.io.com - I don't want to invite my members to join here until there's something ready to go.

Thanks in advance,

Denise

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 12:26 AM, Gerald Boutin wrote:

or like these: ?????

My eyes... my eyes!

Please someone make it stop!

Chris