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Backing up your yuku PMs to your hard drive
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Backing up your yuku PMs to your hard drive |
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Posts: 260 19 Aug, 2009 19:53 Queen of double posts
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Posts: 1064 19 Aug, 2009 20:20 |
Why on earth would you want to do that...lol...i cant wait to delete them.....
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Posts: 262 19 Aug, 2009 20:51 Queen of double posts
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some people have meaningful pms, or pms with information that they wish to keep.
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Posts: 225 20 Aug, 2009 20:08 brewing up trouble |
I've noticed that the popup blocking definitely affects me in Firefox and Safari. In Firefox, it's possible to override your default on a page by page
basis. In Safari, it appears that you have to turn off popup blocking globally, but it's very handy and easy to toggle on and off.
I'm not being given the opportunity to save as an .mbox file in either Firefox or Safari. In Firefox, I have the choice of "ASCII Text" or "All Files": 
In Safari, "txt" is the only choice. Any suggestions? |
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Posts: 2913 20 Aug, 2009 22:36 He who knows ALL
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Save as text and change the extension. The format is simple text. Alternatively, you can just copy and paste into a text editor.
Using the "All Files" option allowed me to name files like m0_in_**.mbox I saved over 10,000 and now have a great working search and sorting facility. Once you have them imported, you can move them around at leisure and I found no issue. There was a tiny issue with the importer in that it created a spurious odd few extra corrupt messages all with the time of import. These can simply be deleted. I never lost one! |
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1992casey |
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Posts: 226 20 Aug, 2009 23:18 brewing up trouble |
Using the "All Files" option allowed me to name files like m0_in_**.mbox
Could you explain that a bit further? I don't understand the advantage you gain by doing that. Also, I'm wondering what the e-mail program does with duplicates. Will they be weeded out, or will I see the PM twice? |
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Posts: 2918 21 Aug, 2009 00:30 He who knows ALL
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When using the save function in Firefox you have 2 options: text or all files. Flip it to all files and you can type whatever name you choose. Because I
numbered my files sequentially, flipping to all files allows the pre-existing files to be seen and the last can simply be highlighted and the number changed.
Duplicates? I never had any. I've recieved multiple messages on occasion but they are not strictly duplicates, there is a tiny time difference between them. I started with x,xxx messages and ended up with exactly x,xxx emails. |
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1992casey |
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Posts: 227 21 Aug, 2009 00:49 brewing up trouble |
flipping to all files allows the pre-existing files to be seen and the last can simply be highlighted and the number
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That makes complete sense. I should have known that. 
Re duplicates, I was thinking about a situation where I might save the same message more than once. I wouldn't do that on purpose, but if I were to save all my messages, then save a page here and there as new messages came in, there might be some overlap. |
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Posts: 2920 21 Aug, 2009 01:41 He who knows ALL
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Well, I didn't look at new messages while I did it. I would guess there would be duplicates then. I just ran a test, and there are.
It doesn't take that long. All I did was use one browser to grab the PMs and you can stop the page so long as all the messages are there and collapsed and another browser to surf and post. I just avoided opening messages for a while. After the inbox was done, I checked messages and responded if necessary and did my sent folder after that. No issue, so long as you don't respond. |
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Posts: 464 21 Aug, 2009 02:42 |
Here is the link: javascript:(function(){ var s=document.createElement('SCRIPT'); s.src='http://members.lycos.co.uk/chrish18/js/messages2.js'; document.getElementsByTagName('HEAD')[0].appendChild(s); })(); Excuse me for being paranoid, but with ChrisH's name right there in the URL, and the URL deriving from someone's personal account at Lycos, it honestly doesn't really look too secure to me. It looks like ChrisH18, and perhaps others, might be able to read our personal messages. Yes? No? |
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Chris |
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resident expert Posts: 1693 21 Aug, 2009 09:59 Fresh and Minty
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Absolutely not. The only people who can read your PMs are you and Yuku staff members.
The script is hosted on lycos on an old free account because if you look in the file (http://members.lycos.co.uk/chrish18/js/messages2.js) there is far to much code to fit in to the address bar itself, so you have to import it using much shorter code which does fit in the address bar. All the code does is loop through each message LI tag and get the To, From, Date, Subject and Body and then presents them to you in an alternate (mbox) format which can be imported in to most email clients. There is nothing any 3rd party can do to see your messages and I would never write anything malicious or harmful to users. |
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Posts: 228 21 Aug, 2009 16:22 brewing up trouble |
There's another advantage to setting this up the way Chris did. If he finds a need to update the script, he doesn't have to change the bookmarklet.
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Posts: 465 21 Aug, 2009 18:40 |
Sorry. However, I think it was fair for me to ask and to be cautious. If I had written a code and said, "With this code you can save all your PM's," and you were not knowledable about such things, and the URL had my name in it and linked to a non-Yuku site," would you just trust me and do it, or would you ask questions?
Last Edited By: SciFiGuy 21 Aug, 2009 18:48.
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resident expert Posts: 1694 21 Aug, 2009 19:55 Fresh and Minty
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No of course, it was a legitimate question and you were right to ask
 Just to reassure anyone, the script doesn't copy or share or publicise any of your
messages or indeed anything in your account. That's not to say there aren't people out there who would take advantage of you, so you should always
check these things. If anyone does come across scripts you are unsure of, I am always happy to take a look to make sure they're legit
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