Dec. 17th, 2019

Yahoo hell

Dec. 17th, 2019 08:29 pm
kengr: (Default)
Ok, they finally quit letting me grab things about 3 pm on Monday. Got most of the stuff I wanted, I think.

As a precaution I also did that thing where I requested copies of the content from Yahoo.

From what I understand from posts I've seen elsewhere, Yahoo's download offer actually gets *all* the messages and files for the groups. Doesn't get *any* photos.

I'm having to rely on hearsay, because I put in a request, and have links to 7 2 gb files.

Slight problem. I can't *download* them. I can start a download in a browser, but when it errors out, there's no way to resume it. I have to start over.

I tried adding a utility that can resume (Internet download Accelerator) but it doesn't seem to be able to resume either.

Part of the problem is that they are using extra security for the download links. I have 2 factor authentication turned *off*, but to get to the links, I not only have to give my userid and password, but it insists on sending me an email with a 4 letter code to enter.

after a bit the links on the page don't work anymore, and refreshing it has me go thru the whole rigamarole again.

If anybody has actually gotten this to work, please tell me how!

and (of course) yahoo doesn't have anything remotely close on their help links.

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