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Mighty Motif Max
Total Posts: 317
Joined 04-30-2016 status: Enthusiast |
Yahoo is shutting down their Groups site. New uploads and content will be locked starting on the 28th of this month, and all data will be erased on December 14th. The email system will remain functional for an unspecified amount of time, but knowing Yahoo (i.e. GeoCities), I wouldn’t count on much. The Yahoo Groups platform has a TON of synth and music stuff, some dating back to the mid 1990s. All of this will be lost when the platform is erased. Some moderators are migrating to groups-dot-io but that company now raised the fee for transferring groups to $220 (USD). Many groups have been dead for years, but still have patches, tech and repair info, and a lot more; sadly there is no one to migrate them as the admins are gone. I am working on archiving as many groups as I can (also have some “life events” this weekend and the next so I’m not able to do as much as I’d like to). I’m using PG Offline, which seems to work. You can download an entire group’s messages, or just the files, photos, or links too (to folders on your PC). Messages are stored in SQLite but can be exported to HTML and more, meaning it can be added to a new forum or an existing one. Free 30-day trial or about $25 for it; Windows only. The developer is actively working on adding groups.io export too. I can’t do all of the thousands of music groups, not by a long shot. I would encourage anyone here who wants a certain group’s information to use that program and quickly before the lockdown on the 28th - I don’t know how that is going to affect the system. The only wrinkle is that you must be a member of any group you want to save. Sadly with some of the dead “restricted"/closed groups that means you would have had to have been a member prior to it fading out; there’s no one to approve you now. Hope this can be of use. If anyone archives a group, please comment with which one(s) you’ve done below. Thanks. -Max |
Mighty Motif Max
Total Posts: 317
Joined 04-30-2016 status: Enthusiast |
Realized I haven’t updated this thread. Below are the groups I’ve archived so far.
dp4 (Ensoniq DP4)
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5pinDIN
Total Posts: 11891
Joined 09-16-2010 status: Legend |
Thanks for your valiant efforts. I’d help, but I don’t have good enough internet access to do so. Could you add another to your archive? groups.yahoo.com/group/YamahaA5000 |
sonalimittal850
Total Posts: 1
Joined 10-30-2019 status: Newcomer |
its not i think |
Mighty Motif Max
Total Posts: 317
Joined 04-30-2016 status: Enthusiast |
Was wondering if you would want that one when I was looking through all the Groups to join them. I just finished archiving it in the latest batch actually! Next day’s worth is done:
rhodes
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Mighty Motif Max
Total Posts: 317
Joined 04-30-2016 status: Enthusiast |
Twenty-three more are done:
DR-5
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