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May 31, 2021 · Yahoo! Groups, once upon a time a hub to many online communities, was shut down in 2020. Yahoo! Groups used to host mailing lists going as far back as 1997, and perhaps you may have once been a part of it yourself. Users were offered a Get Your Data tool to download their messages and other data, prior to the shutdown, but many people were ...
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By Cat Ellis
published 17 October 2019
The clock is ticking...
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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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Oct 18, 2019 · Even after these features are disabled, you’ll still be able to access and export your data for a few more weeks—until December 14, 2019. After that date, all previously uploaded content will ...
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Oct 16, 2020 · The ‘full’ shutdown of Yahoo Groups will take place on 15 December 2020. What does the shutdown mean for users? After 15 December, users will no longer be able to send and receive emails from...
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