getting your data from yahoo

[Ali]

> I also asked for and got one of these files.  Mine took something like
> 30
> hours, and gave me a 584 MB .zip file.  I tried it using a Windows 10
> machine, and it consists of directories, each with the name of a group
> I'm
> subscribed to.  Opening each directory, there are one or more .zip
> files
> in it; for example, files.zip, links.zip, and messages.zip are in one
> I'm
> looking at now.  files.zip contains the files without further
> complication, with their directory structure from Yahoo maintained.
> links.zip contains .url files.  messages.zip contains files of the
> format
> 1959542.mbox.00001, 1959542.mbox.00002, 1959542.mbox.00003, etc.  These
> seem to be 10 MB (uncompressed) chunks of the concatenated messages, in
> plaintext format as email messages.  I haven't tried feeding them to
> something like Pine, but it would appear to be compatible.  Email
> addresses appear to be intact, with the exception of one group I looked
> at
> with messages back into 1999 (perhaps they started on egroups or
> something).  The one thing that does not appear to be there is photos,
> unless they were stored as "files."
> 
> Overall, it's exactly what I would have hoped to get, with the
> exception
> of the photos.


I had the same experience, although mine was much smaller (only one group,
not very active and not with many files). Overall very painless. 

-All