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Yahoo not allowing [email protected] to be added to membership #yahoo

 
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I was excited to see that groups.io can move my Yahoo group over, but going through the steps, when I tried to invite [email protected] to my group, Yahoo says "Sorry, an error occurred while loading the content."? Does anyone else get this issue?
 

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:56 AM, <anantz@...> wrote:
I tried to add [email protected] to my membership
You can't add it to the membership, you have to send an invitation.

Duane
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Sorry!? That's what I meant.? I tried to send [email protected] an invitation, and Yahoo gave me the error "Sorry, an error occurred while loading the content."
 

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:56 AM, <anantz@...> wrote:
Yahoo says "Sorry, an error occurred while loading the content."? Does anyone else get this issue?
As Duane stated, you have to send an invitation...from your YAHOO group. If you've never done this before, instructions can be found at??

Having said that, it sometimes happens that Yahoo will throw the above-mentioned "ugly purple box error" when an invitation is attempted. Usually, the invitation has gone out anyway. Hmmm...are you glad you're leaving them yet?

To be sure, go back to the groups.io transfer page at?/yahootransfer. Pull down the Existing Transfers menu at bottom right and select the group that you're trying to transfer. A status bar should appear at the top of the resulting page. If it says something along the lines of "we have received your invitation and will accept it soon...", then everything is fine. If not, the invitation did not go out. Return to Yahoo and try again.

When the transfer agent accepts the invitation, groups.io will send you an email with further instructions.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
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I saw this message when I sent the invitation, too. ?However when I went back to my Yahoo group¡¯s invite page, it told me I could only invite 99 more members that day so I knew it had gone out.

when you check back on the Transfer page for your IOG group, you should see a message saying your invitation was received and you don¡¯t need to do anything more until it is accepted.
 

Anantz,


... when I tried to invite [email protected] to my group, Yahoo says "Sorry, an error occurred while loading the content."? Does anyone else get this issue?

From time to time. Not always the Invite page, and not really related to the transfer agent specifically. It seems that sometimes the scripting Yahoo puts in your browser gets out of sync with the code in their servers.

Try the "browser ritual":
  • Refresh
  • Ctrl+F5 refresh
  • Sign out and sign back in
  • Try a different browser
  • If you are using IE 10 or higher turn off compatibility mode
  • If you are using IE 9 or lower, don't.
  • Clear browser cache
  • Clear browser cookies and history

Try the actions in whatever order is easiest for you (Ctrl+F5 high on the list) and check after each step. You may not have to do them all (deleting cookies can be particularly inconvenient as it signs you out of Yahoo Groups and most other sites).

Shal


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I tried CtrlF5 and that didn't change anything.? (But I have no idea what that combination is supposed to do.)

Then I tried a different browser (Epic) and that worked.? I'll try working through the Firefox problem later.

Thank you!

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