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Hi,

Over in Pony land, we originally set up two groups:

One for users of the language:

And one for people developing the language:

We've since decided we'd rather have one group and would like to merge them. Ideally this would be mean, that only the user group exists afterwards. And...

• all members of the dev group are added to the user group
• all files from dev group are moved to user group
• all calendar entries from dev group are moved to user group
• all messages are moved

In the end we can do almost everything by hand but

• all files from dev group are moved to user group
• all messages are moved

Are both problematic. Is there a way to do what we want?

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Sean T. Allen wrote:

In the end we can do almost everything by hand but

• all files from dev group are moved to user group
• all messages are moved

Are both problematic. Is there a way to do what we want?

There is currently no way to move content between subgroups?via the web interface. However, both files and messages can be exported (Admin>Settings>Export Group Data button at the top of the page). The resulting message archive is human-readable and can be uploaded as another file to your user group, but cannot be merged with the existing messages. Exported files are readily uploaded, but you will have to manually re-create the directory structure and descriptions, and they will lose their owner information.

If this does not meet your needs, your only option is to contact Mark at support(at)groups(dot)io. Please report back on any response you receive.

Good luck,
Bruce
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Too bad that Mark doesn't support and Import from Groups.io to an existing group in Groups.io.
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On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Sean T. Allen wrote:

Does this mean that they couldn't be added to an existing group that already has messages?

Yes, that's what it means.

There have been rumors that Mark can upload a message archive in mbox format to a group. But several people have recently been directed to ask him about this (usually people trying to migrate from MailMan or Big Tent). Only one or two have ever reported that he did it...and that was two years ago or more.??/g/GroupManagersForum/search?q=import+mbox

Even then, this was to transfer a new group. I don't know if the messages can be interleaved so they remain in date-order, as you would probably expect them to.
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Bottom line:? No one here can do it, and your best source for information on this is to contact support.

Regards,
Bruce
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Allen,

Does this mean that they couldn't be added to an existing group that
already has messages?

Whether the destination group already has messages or not isn't the issue. The problem is that there's no mechanism available to users that can bulk import message content, or other content (other than the Yahoo Group transfer mechanism).

Presumably Groups.io support could do it, probably using tools created in the development of the Yahoo Transfer mechanism.

If so I would expect it to have the same effect: the bulk copied messages would get assigned message numbers as they are added to the group (possibly intermingling with normal posting to the group) but would retain their original posting date so that they sort in the Messages/Topics lists as if posted on those dates.

A different approach was used by a group migrating from Big Tent, but that mechanism would have the defect of giving the old posts new dates (and probably, a new poster).
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Shal


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