Export to cloud sites & risks

[alhena]

Hi Wilson,

First I want to thank you and the team, PGO is very good software and works fine. 

I'm using PGO 4.0.901 in a win7 ultimate. I'm trying to save the contents of a group whose moderator died in 2014 and there was not any other mod.

Now some doubts:

1.  Once I finish downloading with PGO all group messages, what may be the full size of a 20 year forum, around 120,000 messages?  It it possible to export those files from PGO to the cloud?   The messages in the cloud, remain searchable ?

2. If a forum message would have  virus, would that affect the download with PGO?  Usually at lists the people advice about a virus in the "message subject" then I can set the download by message number to avoid a group of messages,. but reviewing  the subjects is slow & tiring.  I use a good antivirus, so may I download without a prior revision?  Is there a risk the virus or the antivirus might destroy or inhibit the PGO or my system? 

Thanks in advance, with best regards,

alhena

[Wilson Logan]

Its hard to say how large a PGO archive will be as the attachments are part of the database.

If it was just messages & no attachments it might be 120Mb.

You should use a good virus checker like AVG to find viruses.

[alhena]

Hi Wilson,  Thank you for answer. Concerning the file size, 120 mg is nothing, as the io people give 1 GB space per group.  But messages do not count at io, so if you PGO people issue the add-on to reinject messages "as messages" into io, good news !!

I'm using the Avast, hope they are doiing their task !!

best,
alhena

[Wilson Logan]

The tool to inject into io is nearly ready.

The only problem is that groups.io have a posting limit of 80 per hour.

So thats 1440 per day.

If you have 120k messages it will take 83 days.

But is there a huge rush?