getting your data from yahoo

Jay Jaeger cube1 at charter.net
Thu Nov 7 16:16:15 CST 2019


On 11/6/2019 2:23 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
> From: Richard Schauer
> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2019 7:08 AM
> 
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
> 
>>> What tool do I use to look at the contents of this verschlagener file?
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks, Richard!  That was sufficient hint.
> 
> I simply renamed the downloaded file with a .zip extension, and Windows 7 gave
> it a compressed folder icon and opened it right up on a double click.
> 
>                                                                 Rich

Pffft.  I sent them my request on 11/2.  Still no file. I got an email
that they would notify me when it was done - no email yet - so I went to
the site again today and it indicates that they are still processing my
request.


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