Yahoo will delete all Yahoo Groups content on December 14th

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/16/20917710/yahoo-groups-deleting-all-content-upload-message-boards-email-communities

CJB


On Friday, 18 October 2019, 00:50:05 BST, Chris J Brady chrisjbrady@yahoo.com [NewZealandLocomotives] wrote:


 

This weekend Yahoo Groups (or very soon) is being closed down.

These will be deleted...

Files
Polls
Links
Photos
Folders
Calendar
Database
Attachments
Conversations
Email Updates
Message Digest
Message History

Don't forget to download the subscriber list aka members' email
addresses. They're the most valuable part of a Group.

CJB


----- Forwarded message -----
From: iaparkin@yahoo.com [peel]
To: "peel@yahoogroups.com"
Sent: Thursday, 17 October 2019, 22:42:19 BST
Subject: [peel] Re: Yahoo Groups is a Norwegian Blue

 

Preserving the content. 


I have been using a tool called PG Offline to download the conversations, files and photos from this and a number of other Yahoo Groups that I am a member of. The files, links and photos are download as files within a folder structure on disk and the conversations/posts are loaded into a SQLLite database from which they can be extracted and parsed. 

At the moment I have the following downloaded/archived. 
  • Conversations/Posts = 24,432
  • Files = 104 / 101 MB
  • Photos = 140 / 30MB
  • Links = 28 
As was mentioned previously, groups.io appears to have functionality to migrate data. It would seem worth doing this just have an online backup.