Further to this, I was able to import another 10,002 rows in two sessions, so clearly there's an upload limit. . The only trouble is I have 70,000 rows I want to import, and something went wrong with the next batch which has given me 5,000 blank records, which I don't really want to delete 20 at a time... are there any more sophisticated methods for large scale database management, or is it simply a case of the database tool being limited in functionality, which is fair enough.

Jim C

hi folks,

my plan is to move an elder German Yahoo group to another place -
"groups.io" looks very promising - unfortunately many elder people
didn't have the opportunity to learn English at public school - is it
possible to select the German language somewhere in the user interface
of "groups.io"?

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Ralf Brinkmann

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I hesitated to send this message given the unbelievable volume of messages being posted but I wanted to give Mark and Groups.io a 'shout-out' for the ease of navigation in his groups.

Yesterday a Yahoo Group I am a member of completed their move to Groups.io. I guess they're paying the premium rate because the files and photos made the move too. It's a group, like many, that used to a fun, interesting and informative group all that began to change around 2009-2010. You can see the change in the monthly message totals and the drop was dramatic. After a while I stopped visiting the site -- there were months when they got less than five messages posted -- and I actually forgot all about it. Yesterday when I got the transfer message I noticed I was still subscribed through my old AOL email. I wanted to change to my Gmail account. It was easy to find out how to do it. Once I made the request, Groups.io immediately sent a message with a link to my Gmail address. If I clicked on the link (which I did) my AOL account would be 'merged' into my Gmail account. I was warned that, while my membership would be changed to Gmail as requested, I would no longer be able to use the AOL account. That was fine. I never use the AOL account anymore anyway. (In fact, I would have deleted it except two old fogies I know have absolutely REFUSED to use my Gmail. They still send everything to my AOL account. For them I keep it going.)

Anyway, being a Yahoo Groups member the past couple of years, as Yahoo began to withhold even the most basic forms of support from Yahoo Groups members, it was nice to have be able to use a responsive, streamlined process. The change worked quickly and was intelligently set up.

Thanks Mark! You've restored my faith in the internet. Well, kind of restored it anyway. :)

tommy0421

Phil Smith III <lists@...> wrote:

It's all very nice so far except for one thing: Digests are formatted
in silly narrow columns. WebTV is long dead; why would anyone want to
waste screen real estate like this? Makes it much harder to read.

How narrow are the columns?

Are you sure this isn't the way the sender wrote it? Your message in the
digest covered the full width of the screen; however my email client is
set to wrap at 72 characters when writing messages.

If your message also appeared to you in a narrow column, check if there
is a setting in your mail reader to alter that.

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Initiating a message to your group via email requires a destination email address
yourgroupname at(@) groups.io? The system typically "figleafs" email addresses to protect the owners in messages
which is why I separated the above the way I did.
/That doesn't seem like such a big deal to type to me.
Especially since most email systems have typeahead and anticipate frequently used addresses.

Lots of email based controls is available if you look at any group's Home page.


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Bob Bellizzi

It appears it is possible to get your group's data from Yahoo. I used the link here ?when the shutdown was announced. Got a notice today that my data was available. I downloaded the zip files and after a quick look, it appears that messages, files, pictures, attachments, links and other data is available to me.

I think I've answered my own question....seems my USD Amex card required a US zip code even though its registered with my home Canadian address. So I found that I can enter the Canadian postal code numbers followed by two zeros to fulfill the zip code entry field I.E.: a PC of "K2A 3P4" becomes a zip code of "23400". It worked and my premium upgrade succeeded.?

My database import seems to have stopped at 5,001 lines/records. Is this a limit, or is it coincidence, and I should try again?

I pushed the green button three days ago and the following notice appeared at the top:?We are in process of transferring your group. Depending on Yahoo and demand, this may take several days. You will be notified by email when the transfer is completed.

Since then, I have heard nothing. ?I see posts here quoting a message from .io giving them their place in the queue?? ?Would someone point me to the page where I can choose a button to show my status? ?

Gene

[Mod Note: Transfer status instructions can be found in?/g/GroupManagersForum/message/19948]

Hello Groups.io friends,
I've created a new groups.io group to replace our Yahoo group of almost 7500 members. We don't have the funds to pay the Premium subscription for a groups transfer. Is there any way to simply invite all our previous members to the new group (from our groups.io site? I successfully downloaded and sent 1000 invites from Yahoo, but Yahoo only allows me to download 1000 members into a database (and we have 7500). Any ideas on how to glean the emails from the Yahoo group for mass import to a groups.io site? We don't really need all our old files and photos.

Thanks!
Marie ([email protected])

Here’s my group’s timeline.? Just for context, we’re comparatively tiny:? 129 members (of whom 15 have already signed up directly at Groups.io rather than awaiting an invitation), fewer than 1,000 past messages though they’re valuable to us, a few dozen photos, just 3 (yes, 3!) small pdf files.

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Query:? How do I know my place in the queue?? Other people seem to figure that out.

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Bottom line is that everything so far seems to be going according to script, but is taking much longer than I expected. ?I have a note on my personal calendar to write a final message to my Yahoo group tomorrow warning that it looks like we’ll be in transfer limbo indefinitely.

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Oh, and [thinly-veiled swearing directed at Yahoo redacted by Moderator].

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 02:37 PM, margie wrote:

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 09:19 PM, lady.dove@... wrote
into search ? type the name you want..?To ?make the member a mod, click on the name ?
Another window pops up?in that ?dropdown menu
It will have the name?under the name it will have?ROLE: ? where it will have member ?
Click to moderator.
Untick all moderator options

I followed those steps, clicked on ROLE and nothing happens.

In case there is still some misunderstanding, beside the word "Role", there should be a rectangular box that says "Member" and has a down arrow. Click on where it says "Member". Now that should show Member and Moderator. Now click on "Moderator".

If that doesn't work, check your own "Moderator Privileges" permissions as a Moderator. You must have "Invite and Add Members" and "Add, remove, and change moderator privileges". If not, that is why you are unable to perform this function.
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Gerald

I read Mark’s post about queue waiting times but it didn’t clarify my situation. Whatever day it was last week when Mark added the sub transfer statuses, I was at step 3 and 30-something in that queue. His change in how the queues are ordered put me back to 132 or thereabouts. Last I checked I was 111th. What I’m confused about is that on Mon 10/21st I gave the transfer go-ahead for my group. Yet I’m significantly behind someone who gave the transfer go-ahead on Tues 10/22. a day after I did. If Mark is taking groups in order of the transfer go-ahead date then I should be ahead of a group that did that the day after I did. There are people posting here with much more urgent concerns, I know, but if anyone can explain this I’d love to know. There’s got to be something more to how he’s ordering groups than just by date of transfer go-ahead.


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Deborah

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 12:51 PM, Diane wrote:

I should get an email saying it’s been accepted?

Diane -- Yes, when your invitation is accepted you will receive an email from groups.io saying so and providing further instructions.

To this point, accepting the invitation has been taking a day or two...but as of this morning Mark said that they had "accepted all invites up through last night," so hopefully any sent today will go more quickly ().

Bruce

Discourse is a BIG DEAL to only use for emails! Way overkill. It's a full-featured flat forum system. Check out Eve Online or World of Warcraft forums to see it in action.

Members can set their preferences here and only get emails, even though the system saves all of them for future reference, just like Yahoo Groups.

I can that’s not an issue.
[email protected]?never became a member the first time.

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 09:19 PM, lady.dove@... wrote
into search ? type the name you want..?To ?make the member a mod, click on the name ?
Another window pops up?in that ?dropdown menu
It will have the name?under the name it will have?ROLE: ? where it will have member ?
Click to moderator.
Untick all moderator options

I followed those steps, clicked on ROLE and nothing happens.

P. S. I am listed as a moderator