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We only want to transfer the messages from Yahoo to groups.io.? Is there a way to do this manually?? Our group is small and doesn't have the spare funds to do it automatically.

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 05:35 AM, Ted Sarah wrote:

We only want to transfer the messages from Yahoo to groups.io.? Is there a way to do this manually?

No.? You could use one of the 3rd party programs to download the messages, but there's no way to insert them into the group here.

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No, there is not, with caveats.

If you just want the messages and be able to read them, you can find a third-party application and download all of the messages.? Then you can upload those messages as any number of files *which you will have to create* to groups.io.? You could save those messages from the third-party application as PDFs, or .txt files or word .doc files or whatever you want.? At that point they cease to be *email files*.

When you upload them to groups.io, they will not be searchable.? You will not be able to search for specific emails that include the words "brown dogs".? The new files that you have uploaded will show as belonging to you (or to whomever uploaded them).? You will not be able to continue those conversations/messages/emails as a thread.

If you want to transfer your messages from Y!G and have them remain as individual, searchable messages, you need to do the $110 premium group automated transfer.

I've done it both ways:

1. To a Free account
2. By Easy Transfer to a Premium account

No question, #2 gives a far superior replica.

What I did for #1, as outlined by the previous post was to use PB Offline 4 to download Files, Photos, Messages, Links, Members to its database. The Files and Photos files are not in its database but sit in folders following their hierarchy on Yahoo. I uploaded those en masse to the g.io Files. Note that none of the metadata comes with them so I painstakingly edited one by one to copy them over from Y!G. The messages can be exported from PBO in a few ways as a single file of all messages or in chunks of 50 per file. I've uploaded those to Files.

Nothing in Files can be previewed; everything downloads. You cannot search contents without downloading. G.io has the content but it is pretty useless as is. However, if Owners/Moderators/Experts have the downloaded content and are adept at using various tools to search, copy and post the good stuff (either unilaterally or in response to queries), the more valuable content could resurface in the new group. That might be an advantage in some ways for long standing groups that have become cluttered.

The developer of PBO also offers a $100 transfer service to a bulletin board plugin on WordPress. I don't know how good that might be but, having done my own migration from the now defunct Wikispaces to a hosted WP site, it is probably feasible to do so oneself, given the right skillset. I spent dozens of hours doing it myself with an inadequate skillset.

Tom