So far, it has downloaded jack and shit. No email notifications as of yet, and when I go to the site, it still just says "We are currently processing your download request. Please check back later," and the only option I have is to "Delete download request and files." I'm not expecting much else out of it, at this point.
If you want to give it a try on your end and hope for better results, all I did was just went here[1], logged into the Yahoo bit with my Yahoo user/pass[2], selected Groups, and then clicked that might-as-well-be-invisible fucking ... thing in the upper right to bring down the menu with the "Groups Download Manager" option.
If there is another, easier way to download anything (assuming that this method actually even works at all, which it has not, so far), I don't know. The only other way I could think of would be, like you said, to just go into each individual post and copy/paste/save-to-a-text-file or whatever, and that is absolutely not something that I'm willing to do at this time, even for my own posts. >_> Yahoo doesn't even appear to have a way to save messages even for individual messages, at least as far as I can see (aside from manual copy/paste).
There's also some other stuff under the "Photos" and the "Files" sections of the ML as well, some of which might be worth saving. Most of the stuff under "Links" just goes to broken links that used to be on otakuwars.org with the rest going to broken links on shit like angelfire or xoom or tripod or whatever, so... yeah... some of that might be retrievable via archive.org or something, maybe? I haven't bothered to try yet. Aside from that, all the other sections appear to be empty.
[1] - And I only just noticed that the URL for that Verizon manager thing was fucked in the link in the post above, thanks to Facebook's asinine practice of removing most of any URL during copy/pasting and replacing the middle part of it with "..." so I fixed it there.
[2] - Which, given I'm having to use that "newkanemagus" shit, might just make the whole exercise a moot point, if all it downloads is whatever I posted as that account, which would pretty much just be that one post I just made with the warning about Yahoo deleting everything... though if that is the case, I have no idea why it would take so long to "process" that. *shrug*
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Date: 2019-10-19 04:12 pm (UTC)From:If you want to give it a try on your end and hope for better results, all I did was just went here[1], logged into the Yahoo bit with my Yahoo user/pass[2], selected Groups, and then clicked that might-as-well-be-invisible fucking ... thing in the upper right to bring down the menu with the "Groups Download Manager" option.
If there is another, easier way to download anything (assuming that this method actually even works at all, which it has not, so far), I don't know. The only other way I could think of would be, like you said, to just go into each individual post and copy/paste/save-to-a-text-file or whatever, and that is absolutely not something that I'm willing to do at this time, even for my own posts. >_> Yahoo doesn't even appear to have a way to save messages even for individual messages, at least as far as I can see (aside from manual copy/paste).
There's also some other stuff under the "Photos" and the "Files" sections of the ML as well, some of which might be worth saving. Most of the stuff under "Links" just goes to broken links that used to be on otakuwars.org with the rest going to broken links on shit like angelfire or xoom or tripod or whatever, so... yeah... some of that might be retrievable via archive.org or something, maybe? I haven't bothered to try yet. Aside from that, all the other sections appear to be empty.
[1] - And I only just noticed that the URL for that Verizon manager thing was fucked in the link in the post above, thanks to Facebook's asinine practice of removing most of any URL during copy/pasting and replacing the middle part of it with "..." so I fixed it there.
[2] - Which, given I'm having to use that "newkanemagus" shit, might just make the whole exercise a moot point, if all it downloads is whatever I posted as that account, which would pretty much just be that one post I just made with the warning about Yahoo deleting everything... though if that is the case, I have no idea why it would take so long to "process" that. *shrug*