Re: Re: Yahoo Groups to be made useless.

 

On Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 7:06:36 PM GMT+1, Dave McGuire [email protected] [hercules-390] <[email protected]> wrote:
> The groups.io system has migration tools that automatically move all
> subscribers, all message archives, all files, etc etc in a few hours.  I
> encourage everyone who cares about it to have offline copies of this
> material on THEIR OWN COMPUTERS...i.e. not "google drive" or whatever
> BS, which is SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER and can go away at any time...just
> like Yahoo Groups is doing now.

I just finished downloading all the files (except for hercio.zip, which Yahoo claims contains malware and won't let me downlad). I haven't been able (yet) to download the associated metadata, like the file comments, uploader names and upload dates. Neither have I been able to download the pictures or the message archives. I can make the files available as a tarball somewhere online if anyone is willing to host them somewhere semipermanent.