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May 31, 2021 · Thankfully, owing to the efforts of the Save Yahoo Groups Project and Archive Team the data of many groups has been preserved. If you missed out on the GYD tool, you might still be able to retrieve your groups’ data by following the steps below.
Oct 18, 2019 · Starting October 28, 2019, Yahoo is disabling all uploading- and communication-related features in Yahoo groups, including: Conversations. Calendar tools. Database. Email updates. Polls....
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By Cat Ellis
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It's probably been a long time since you last used Yahoo Groups, which is part of the reason Yahoo has decided to shut the service down later this year.
That window gives you a few months to download your data before it's gone for good, and it's well worth doing; you might not recall exactly what you've shared on Yahoo Groups over the years, but there may be the odd photo or file that you'll look back on fondly, or posts that you'll want to hang onto.
To grab your content, head over to your Yahoo Group's page and you should see a link to download everything directly. Alternatively, you can log into your Yahoo account on Verizon Media's Privacy Dashboard and request the data.
There might be quite a lot to package up, depending on how active your Yahoo Groups were, so you'll receive an email once it's all archived and ready to download.
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- Cat Ellis
Had three groups from 2000 - 2002 and thousands of subscribers. The Groups were deliberately killed by Yahoo about a decade ago. All sorts of functions failed, and yahoo couldn't seem to make them work.
Yahoo/Verizon announced in October 2019 that it would permanently delete all Yahoo Groups files and message archives on December 14, 2019 (a deadline later pushed back to January 31, 2020).
Nov 4, 2019 · Yahoo has announced that you can send in a request to download your data up to 11:59 PM PT on January 31st, 2020. (Originally, the deadline was December 14th, 2019.) The company adds that...
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Dec 6, 2020 · Groups’ mailing lists, which are the last remaining part of Yahoo! Groups, will be shutting down in 10 days, on December 15, 2020. However, since group content is no longer accessible to the public, there is little left to archive.
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