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If I delete a subgroup, are the messages in the subgroup automatically retained in the main group? If not, can I transfer the messages (only 17) from the subgroup to the main group archive?

Chris Sackett

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 06:23 AM, Chris Sackett wrote:

If I delete a subgroup, are the messages in the subgroup automatically retained in the main group? If not, can I transfer the messages (only 17) from the subgroup to the main group archive?

No and no.? A subgroup is separate from the main group as far as messages (and most other things) are concerned.? If it's a paid group, you could lock the subgroup so there's no more posting, but retain the messages.? You could resend those messages to the main group, but they wouldn't be sorted by the original time/date and/or sender.

Duane
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Chris . . .

On Thu, 06 Oct 2022 05:27:50 -0700, "Duane" <txpigeon@...> wrote:

You could resend those messages to the main group, but they wouldn't be sorted by the original time/date and/or sender.

What Duane said, but are the 17 messages all that important to keep? If the
subgroup has had so little activity, maybe it's not worth bothering.

Assuming you do want to keep them, you could open two browser tabs, and copy and
paste from one tab open to the subgroup's messages, and post new messages into
the main group.

Before you do this, give some consideration to how the messages will be
presented. You can't make them post earlier than the day you're re-posting them,
so as Duane mentioned, they will be out of order as far as time sequence.

Next, consider that you will be shown as the poster of each message, not the
original poster. You can make it clear who was the OP by modifying the subject
line with the sender's name, or adding information at the top of each of those
17 messages, followed by your pasting of the original messages. Do this 17 times
and you've moved the messages to the main group, then delete the subgroup. Or
just lock the subgroup. (The idea here is if you don't like how things turned
out, you can delete the 17 moved messages and start over if you want to present
the messages differently.) I have a few groups where I moved them from Yahoo
Groups and all of the YG posts are in a subgroup that is an announce only group.
I haven't locked them but I could have done that instead. (I wasn't aware of the
locking operation until a recent discussion here.)

You have the option here, if you want to do this, of merging a few messages
together, or putting all 17 messages into one long message, if that is useful to
you.

I mention these things just to get your mind thinking about how things are going
to look from other members' perspectives. You can delete your "moved" posts
(re-posts) from the main group and start over, but if you delete the subgroup
before you're sure you have things the way you want them, you can't go back and
get them from the subgroup later.

Donald



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On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 01:28 PM, Duane wrote:

If it's a paid group, you could lock the subgroup so there's no more posting, but retain the messages.?

And if it isn't a paid - for group you can make it an Announcement group with almost exactly the same outcome.

Chris?

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 07:23 AM, Chris Sackett wrote:

If not, can I transfer the messages (only 17) from the subgroup to the main group archive?

Chris -- I suggest you do the following:

1. Export the subgroup using the instructions found at?/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/exporting-or-downloading-your-group-s-data/exporting-your-group-s-message-archive-and?
2. In the resulting zip file, locate the file with the .mbox extension. This is the one that contains the messages.
3. Extract this file to the location of your choice
4. Open it as a folder with a suitable email client (Windows 10 Mail and Apple Mail have both been reported to work)
5. Print the folder contents to a PDF
6. Store the PDF in the Files area of your main group.
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The above is pretty much what I did to archive old content from Yahoo Groups (before it went defunct).

Hope this helps,
Bruce

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