Re: Safarifriends yahoo group folders and discussions
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 10:17 am
Greetings to all!
The latest on the Yahoo group content migration:
1. A zip containing a CSV file with full message content from the very beginning in 2000 to the very end in 2019 is now available and attached to this message. A couple of data transforms were necessary to clean up the crud that Yahoo attached to messages, and I'm not convinced all the gunk is gone, but at least it's easier to read now, and it's searchable. You can view it in any spreadsheet software, or in a traditional text editor. If you are a Windows user, my suggestion is to install Notepad++ rather than using the native Notepad included with Windows, but that is strictly individual preference. Wordpad should also work. Personally, I use LibreOffice or a Linux text editor.
2. I've been in touch with a fellow about doing a data migration into this forum and the MySQL under it, he says he might have an answer by the 20th of the month. In the meantime, experiments are underway to explore alternatives for importing messages into the newly-created forum you may have noticed.
3. Pictures and images continue to present a challenge: there is a gallery add-on for phpBB, but it doesn't seem to work here. Possibly a mis-configuration in phpBB, but in the meantime it might make sense to upload a bunch of zip files to at least make them available for downloading. Comments and suggestion are welcome on this topic.
That's it for now, I hope to have further updates over the weekend.
Cheers,
Safari-Admin
The latest on the Yahoo group content migration:
1. A zip containing a CSV file with full message content from the very beginning in 2000 to the very end in 2019 is now available and attached to this message. A couple of data transforms were necessary to clean up the crud that Yahoo attached to messages, and I'm not convinced all the gunk is gone, but at least it's easier to read now, and it's searchable. You can view it in any spreadsheet software, or in a traditional text editor. If you are a Windows user, my suggestion is to install Notepad++ rather than using the native Notepad included with Windows, but that is strictly individual preference. Wordpad should also work. Personally, I use LibreOffice or a Linux text editor.
2. I've been in touch with a fellow about doing a data migration into this forum and the MySQL under it, he says he might have an answer by the 20th of the month. In the meantime, experiments are underway to explore alternatives for importing messages into the newly-created forum you may have noticed.
3. Pictures and images continue to present a challenge: there is a gallery add-on for phpBB, but it doesn't seem to work here. Possibly a mis-configuration in phpBB, but in the meantime it might make sense to upload a bunch of zip files to at least make them available for downloading. Comments and suggestion are welcome on this topic.
That's it for now, I hope to have further updates over the weekend.
Cheers,
Safari-Admin