# Migrate Google Group Archive?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/migrate-google-group-archive/82>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [11 May 2018 02:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/migrate-google-group-archive/82 "2018-05-11T02:25:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidcgu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@davidcgu](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/davidcgu)\
**Post date:** [11 May 2018 02:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/migrate-google-group-archive/82/1 "2018-05-11T02:25:27Z")

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Hello Guys,

I think this is a great idea, google forum was not running very well that’s the truth…  
From other side is also truth the fact that forum is frequently used in order to make a search for some topics that could be in some specific interest or maybe related to same problem/question you actually have.

I mean for me is like google something to see what help you can find from previous conversations on the forum.

I think is going to be difficult to migrate like this when all previous data seems to be directly lost and I wonder is there is no way to recover somehow all previous conversations on a specific category for instance so you don’t have to classify all previous conversations by topic, but at least we can use it starting from here to make a search and take benefit of those previous conversations without having to use booth,google forum and this one.

Regards

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [11 May 2018 08:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/migrate-google-group-archive/82/2 "2018-05-11T08:16:41Z")

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Yes we have thought about that (a bit)… there isn’t any good way to migrate things over - there are a couple of hacks but we didn’t want to jump into that and mess things up to start with. We don’t have a problem with people copying over good answers if they find something useful and want to re-share it here to make it easier to find. On the other hand google does do search quite well 😉 so finding the old items isn’t usually too hard, and we aren’t intending to delete them.