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Re: A few questions about the yahoo change

 

Susan,

The first time I tried to invite to join my YG I had the same issue. Long story short, I believe the problem was a typo on my part. I may well have sent the first invite to groups.i.o. (note the extra period). I suspected, and Don strongly suggested, that if the transfer status bar on the page didn't acknowledge receipt of my invitation then they probably didn't get it. So, I sent a second invitation, taking extra care with the address, and the transfer status bar on the .io page very quickly changed to a confirmation that my invitation had been received.?

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deborah

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Deborah


Re: Adding a gigunda group

 

Last year I transferred a Yahoo group with over 640,000 messages with no problems. I was watching the message numbers increment at groups.io, and it did take a while for all of them to arrive!

Bill

On 10/21/2019 11:14 AM, KATHLEEN DESMAISONS wrote:
However, I do have a couple of groups with a very large number of messages and want to just verify that the process will work for them. The largest has 122,000 messages.
Thoughts?
Kathleen


Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

 

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Now it shows up! Hooray. I did another invite, including a name

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Groups.io Transfer <[email protected]>

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I hope that works.

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Linda Jones

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bruce Bowman
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 2:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:49 PM, Linda Jones wrote:

I¡¯m pretty sure I did that, but I just did it again. Should I send another invite?

Not until you're sure you have a transfer in process. Go back to?/yahootransfer, pull down the Existing Transfers menu and make sure something is there.

If something is, then you can proceed to go to your Yahoo Group and invite the transfer agent again.

If there still isn't anything there, you need to click on "Set Up New Transfer" again, and be sure to put JUST THE GROUP NAMES in the two boxes (leave off all the @domain stuff). I admit that I'm just taking a guess at the problem, but you wouldn't be the first person who tried to do this by putting email addresses in those boxes instead of the group names.

Good luck,
Bruce


Leaving a member behind in transfer #members #transfer

 

We are looking to transfer from Yahoo! Groups to Groups.io and we have a couple of questions for privacy purposes.?

1. If we choose to NOT transfer the "Members" data, will the messages show with the Yahoo! Alias still or will it be substituted with "Unknown"/"Anonymous" or will it use the Group.IO account the messages are transferred to? Also will these messages/threads still be able available to post new information??

2. If we choose to NOT transfer the "Members" data, will any email accounts from Yahoo! Groups be migrated over? So for example if someone?s email account is found in the "message history" of a thread or the "Activity Log" (that would possibly be migrated from Yahoo! Groups)??

Thank you for your time and we understand that you are receiving many more questions then a week ago so we will be patient :)?
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Inserting (and acciently deleting) photos

 

So I am experiencing a brain freeze.

I inserted a local pic into a message, ('er post.)?
Then accidentally deleted it during editing.?

So I wanted to re-insert the SAVED pic (I had dome some pic editing,) rather than upload another (I ass/u/me that the pic gets saved in MarkCyberSpace as soon as you hit SAVE and it's inserted?.)?

But -- I couldn't locate the pic -- I THOUGHT that previously when I added a pic that I could choose from pics that were previously saved. (not pics that were emailed [attached] or in albums -- but ones that had been inserted.)

Am I hallucinating?? Tell me it isn't so.
TY


Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

 

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:56 PM, Dotty Bell wrote:
The list of groups with transfer requests will show in a drop-down list.? I was unclear on that at first.
Right. You have to click in the box. You can't just look at it!

Bruce


Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

 

Mine worked but here is what I did ¡°Groups.io Transfer <[email protected]>¡± Obviously you use only the text inside the quotes. It did not work until I added the first and last name to the invite.


Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

 

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 12:29 PM, Linda Jones wrote:

Sadly my existing transfers box says I have no transfers in process.

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I¡¯ve paid for my year of premium maintenance. I¡¯ve invited [email protected] to my Yahoo group (several days ago).

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Nada since.

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Linda,
Don't know if this will help, but did you click on the arrow on the right edge of the empty "Existing Transfers" box?? The list of groups with transfer requests will show in a drop-down list.? I was unclear on that at first.? I can then click on the group name, and it takes me to the transfer setup page for that group.? It's at the top of that setup page that the message tells me if my invite has been received and/or accepted.?

Dotty

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Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

 

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:49 PM, Linda Jones wrote:
I¡¯m pretty sure I did that, but I just did it again. Should I send another invite?
Not until you're sure you have a transfer in process. Go back to?/yahootransfer, pull down the Existing Transfers menu and make sure something is there.

If something is, then you can proceed to go to your Yahoo Group and invite the transfer agent again.

If there still isn't anything there, you need to click on "Set Up New Transfer" again, and be sure to put JUST THE GROUP NAMES in the two boxes (leave off all the @domain stuff). I admit that I'm just taking a guess at the problem, but you wouldn't be the first person who tried to do this by putting email addresses in those boxes instead of the group names.

Good luck,
Bruce


Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

 

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I¡¯m pretty sure I did that, but I just did it again. Should I send another invite?

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Linda Jones

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bruce Bowman
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 2:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GMF] HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:29 PM, Linda Jones wrote:

Sadly my existing transfers box says I have no transfers in process.

If you have none in process, it can only be because you didn't start one properly.

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/19673?for detailed instructions. Sounds like you need to resume at #7 on that list.

I¡¯ve paid for my year of premium maintenance. I¡¯ve invited [email protected] to my Yahoo group (several days ago).

Inviting the transfer agent is step 3...and you haven't completed step 2 yet. The transfer agent will not accept an invitation if you don't have a transfer pending.

Regards,
Bruce

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Re: Help with transfer of an "orphaned" Yahoo group #pgoffline

 

Adam,

I did just that for a group about a year ago.?? The owner had been locked out of the group and the other moderators were only alter egos and were also locked out.? The owner didn't really know where to go and since he couldn't get in, couldn't give me moderator or owner status.

What I did was download the group with PGOffline, which costs about $30, and got all 27000 messages and the photos and files.? While it was a lot of work to post the photos and files to the newly created groups.io file, I got it done, but I still am looking for a solution that will make the old database of messages available.? It is basically a model train history group and those old messages contain valuable historical information so I don't want them to be lost.? By the way all those photos and files now show to be posted by me and not the original poster.? If anyone wants to change anything, I give them access back.? I would do it for all, but it is a time consuming process as you need to give access to both the album and each photo.

Messages on the old Yahoo group were unmoderated so it still functioned as a means of communicating with the members, whom we invited to join the new group.?? Out of 689 members on Yahoo, only 100 or so joined the new group.?? We are now at 112 members.? What was left at Yahoo were those who probably weren't interested anymore and those who were marginally interested.?? Since no one had the power to shut down or disable posting on the old group, our biggest problem has turned out to be those latter members who were blissfully unaware that anything had happened, except that there were few messages in the Yahoo group.?? Then they decided to post something and did it on Yahoo and the 689 members got the message.?? There were then responses to the messages on Yahoo, mostly by our members who had moved over to groups.io, who didn't look carefully to see that the message had come from Yahoo.?

I have set up email message filters that send such messages to a separate mailbox and I then forward them to the groups.io group and let people know to respond there.?? I then invite the initial sender to join the groups.io group if he hasn't already.? I have also asked members to delete {groupname}@yahoogroups.com from their email, so they will be less likely to post on the old group.?

In some ways, I wish Yahoo wasn't continuing as an email list as that would end this problem, but continuing messages ties in with OATH's email business plans. ?? I will bet that the ads that were formerly on the website get tacked to the end of the messages sent out or that you get separate ad messages.

Good luck with this and if I can be of any help, just contact me.

Dale Smith

Good luck with this.

On 10/20/2019 8:44 PM, Adam Farson wrote:

Hi Jim,

Thanks! You have summed up my problem 100% accurately. I had failed to mention that I had invited [email protected] to become a member of the Yahoo group in question. Mark accepted the invitation, but now I am "stuck" because I cannot reach PA3DUV. He does not answer my e-mails, nor has he reacted to Yahoo's warnings.

The best I can hope for is to capture the old messages, files and photos an place the in the Files and Photos sections of the new groups.io icom2kl group, but the members will not be transferred. There is a program "PGOffline" which will do this, but I have to buy the full version.

Cheers, Adam
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Re: Group maintenance???

 

thank you, pablo and everyone!

jean


Re: Group maintenance???

Pablo Sanchez
 

On 2019-10-21 14:05, Jean Guevara via Groups.Io wrote:
forgive me (it's a monday :)? but i take it "Mail will be queued
during the downtime and will be sent when we are back on-line" means
no email correspondence between members during this time?
Hi Jean,

That's exactly how I read it.? No email will move during the maintenance
on the DB server.

Cheers,

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pablo


Re: Deleting photo albums with 0 photos

 

I found a relatively quick way to delete duplicate or unwanted photo albums:

1) Holding CTRL down, click on each photo album to be deleted on the page being viewed. This will open these in new tabs.

2) From left to right click on these tabs and choose "Delete Album," then close the tab.

3) When all tabs are closed other than the original full albums view, proceed to the next page of album views and repeat.?

I was able to delete 250 empty albums in less than an hour using this technique.

Cheers!

Howard Hoyt
[email protected]?Moderator


Re: Incomplete Transfer

 

Howard Hoyt wrote:
Hi Lawrence,
I have had the same real?KX3list@...?account for six years.? It still works to access and moderate the group.? Maybe I need to get yet another yahoo ID and give it moderator privileges?

Howard, you may have a different problem than the one I encountered.

Try this. Log out of Yahoo groups. When you log back in, click "Forgot Password" and reset your password. Then try PGO with the new password.

Laurence



Re: 24+ hours and no acceptance of Yahoo Group invitation to [email protected] from groups.io transfer agent

 

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:22 PM, Bernie/Ohio/GL-033 wrote:
You are not alone.? Our situation is the same.? Only acknowledgement was Yahoo¡¯s subsequent screen that said our invitation was successfully sent.?
Contrary to some other comments, the only status screen for invitations seems to be on the page, but that¡¯s for invitations to your new home, from your new home.?
Bernie -- To actually confirm that groups.io has received the invitation, check your transfer status as outlined in?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/19952

For us, we sort on the ¡°added¡± column in the membership list on Yahoo to see if [email protected] shows up.? We wait and wait.? Going into the third day, but it is over a weekend.
As has previously been mentioned, accepting the invitation is the longest delay in the process, and is getting even longer and more and more transfer requests come in.

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/19692?for an explanation.

Regards,
Bruce


Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

 

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:29 PM, Linda Jones wrote:

Sadly my existing transfers box says I have no transfers in process.

If you have none in process, it can only be because you didn't start one properly.

See?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/19673?for detailed instructions. Sounds like you need to resume at #7 on that list.

I¡¯ve paid for my year of premium maintenance. I¡¯ve invited [email protected] to my Yahoo group (several days ago).

Inviting the transfer agent is step 3...and you haven't completed step 2 yet. The transfer agent will not accept an invitation if you don't have a transfer pending.

Regards,
Bruce

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Re: HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

 

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Sadly my existing transfers box says I have no transfers in process.

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I¡¯ve paid for my year of premium maintenance. I¡¯ve invited [email protected] to my Yahoo group (several days ago).

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Nada since.

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Linda Jones

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bruce Bowman
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 1:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [GMF] HOW TO CHECK TRANSFER STATUS (was: transfer problem)

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 01:38 PM, Zeller, Al wrote:

Don¡¯t see any status box at the top of the page. Only thing there are box for your groups, help and my email.

Okay, let's try this again.

  1. Go to the Yahoo transfer page at?/yahootransfer
  2. Select the transfer you want to check status on from "Existing Transfers" at lower right (i.e.: pull down that menu and click on the name)
  3. The box at the top of the resulting page will tell you the status of that transfer.
  4. Repeat for any other transfers you may have in progress.

Regards,
Bruce


Re: 24+ hours and no acceptance of Yahoo Group invitation to [email protected] from groups.io transfer agent

 

You are not alone.? Our situation is the same.? Only acknowledgement was Yahoo¡¯s subsequent screen that said our invitation was successfully sent.? Contrary to some other comments, the only status screen for invitations seems to be on the page, but that¡¯s for invitations to your new home, from your new home.? For us, we sort on the ¡°added¡± column in the membership list on Yahoo to see if [email protected] shows up.? We wait and wait.? Going into the third day, but it is over a weekend.

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:48 AM Adrian Segar <adrian@...> wrote:
I wish to move an existing group from Yahoo to . I have set up the new group on and paid for a premium plan. I sent the invite from my Yahoo group for [email protected] to join the Yahoo group over 24 hours ago, but has not accepted the invitation. (In other words, I've not seen [email protected] join as a member of the Yahoo group.) According to the documentation, that invite should have gone out in a few hours. So I am stuck waiting. Please advise on what to do.

Thanks!

-Adrian Segar-




Re: Limited number of invites? #invitation

 

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We have a small group <175 and I thought that an upload the way I did it would go quickly.?? Oh well, I just wait and see.



On 10/21/2019 1:30 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote:

It seems pretty obvious to me that the text you have copied in your message clearly does NOT state that there is a limit to invites that can be sent at one time.
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It clearly states that you've reached the limit that doesn't need to be approved.?? I highlighted and italicized that below.
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Invite 20 people in one day, no approval needed, 20 people invited.
Invite 20 people every day for five days, no approval needed, 100 people invited total.
Invite 100 people in a day, approval needed, 100 people invited total (after approval, which usually takes a few hours, but right now things are taking longer)

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 07:59 AM, Ted Sarah wrote:

I received this: "You have reached the limit for number of invites that can be sent out without approval."