No mergers, but yes have some deleted.  But there have been more delete than the one remaining?

Nina found the issue! She sent me this (I trust it's ok with her to quote):

 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/internal-links-not-working-in-pdf/d91991c7-1f7a-4dff-bfe9-b2aa404a9c77.
"It appears there was an issue with internal links in PDF files generated from Word, and Microsoft issued a patch for the Windows version; however, it’s not yet working on Mac according to the latest replies in that thread, which are dated October 27 at this writing."

It turns out I was wrong that the pdf links work the in un-uploaded document. They don't. :-) So this is just the Mac bug.
Thanks, Nina!
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J

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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

p.s. Nina, if you are reading and happen to know the answer or solution to this (I suspect you might?), please feel free to let me know either onlist or in a PM! I didn't post this to docs because the issue doesn't really belong there, but I suspect you are reading here.
Thanks!
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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

Yesterday, I revised one of my group's major informational pdf files and uploaded the revised file to my group's Files section. This file contains many links to within the document itself. Before the update, the links all worked. But in the new document, although the links work when the document is viewed in Word (i.e., outside of groups.io), they are all broken when you view the document in the group.

I don't know whether this is a bug, or whether I'm asking for help with what is possibly a Word issue, or whether there is possibly a groups.io incompatibility with a newer version of Word. (Today I will probably create a small test file in my test group to try to check this out.) I do know that in between the old and the updated document, I updated Word. Formerly, I had an older version running on an older Mac. I got a new Mac this summer and at that point I subscribed to the new MS Word. In case anyone is about to suggest it, I did select the pdf version that's best for links, etc. (as opposed to for printing).

I need to update this document, and right now, I am not able to. I had to revert to the older version once I noticed the problem.

Would appreciate any insight into this.

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J

Messages are the sole opinion of the author, especially the fishy ones.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

I'd like to see an option, probably a checkbox, under the "Allow Sponsorships" Settings box that would allow the current balance to be displayed next to the Sponsor button for group members.  I don't think it's a critical bit of information, but would make things a little more transparent to members.

Thanks,
Duane

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 3:34 PM Bruce Bowman <<mailto:bruce.bowman@tds.net>bruce.bowman@tds.net> wrote:

Outlook inserts a winmail.dat file in virtually every outgoing message. Only other Outlook clients do anything with it.

I suggest stripping these so they do not continue to proliferate as useless attachments.

Do we know if any other email service (Gmail/Yahoo/etc) strips these attachments?

Gmail converts them so no need to strip them.

Need to be aware that while they may be RTF versions of the text in a message, they can also be files added as attachments. Multiple files actually, since all attachments are bundled up into one winmail.dat file.

David

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 11:34 PM, Bruce Bowman wrote:

Outlook inserts a winmail.dat file in virtually every outgoing message. Only other Outlook clients do anything with it.

I understand that these are generated when the Sender is using Rich Text Format and the answer would seem to be to switch to HTML or Plain Text. <https://gcits.com/knowledge-base/how-to-fix-the-winmail-dat-attachment-issue/>https://gcits.com/knowledge-base/how-to-fix-the-winmail-dat-attachment-issue/

This is only a solution when the person's e-mail server is Exchange. For people using Outlook or POP or IMAP, the problem will remain.

David

Outlook inserts a winmail.dat file in virtually every outgoing message. Only other Outlook clients do anything with it.

Not true. Gmail can extract it. Recent versions of Thunderbird can extract it.

I suggest stripping these so they do not continue to proliferate as useless attachments.

They are not useless attachments. It turns out that when Outlook is set to RTF, *any* attachment is made into a winmail.dat. So if you delete them, then you are deleting valid attachments that are a part of the message.

Fixing it is tedious. This can be fixed for *new* recipients by setting Outlook to not use RTF. However, for any contact you have sent a message using RTF, it remembers and continues to send them as RTF with attachments as winmail.dat files. It is possible to edit the setting for each contact to stop it using RTF. Messages sent to those people no longer get the attachments inserted as normal attachments.

Deleting winmail.dat files is not the answer. Educate your users how to change the setting for the group e-mail address if you want to stop winmail.dats ending up in your group.

David

In my group, all the ones I checked were correct.

I wonder if yours had topics that were deleted?  Or merged?

Andy

The count in the hashtag box on the # hashtag page is not correct.  Example: The screen shot below shows 2 topics with this hashtag, but in fact there is only one.  I have others which lists 2 but there are none.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Tom

One thing that would be helpful is reduced Topic Durations.  I made a suggestion a while back, which I'm sure is/was not a high priority, but if there was an option to delete a topic in a 3 or 6 month Topic Duration, then it would restrict the need for so many regions.  A 1 year Topic Duration leaves too much time for moving through the network.

Tom

The original objective was to post plans for 6 or 7 months out, which could include more than 5 regions, especially up in the Canada/Great Lakes area.  One option, is to limit the time horizon so as to limit the number of regions.  But you now how it is when you get a design in your head, you want to make it work.

Tom

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 03:33 PM, Tom Vail wrote:

 I set it up so each region had its own hashtag, but with a limit of 5 it drastically reduces the effectiveness of the group...as in not worth doing.

Since there can be up to 5 for each topic, I don't understand why you'd need more than that.  I understand that someone may go to Mexico, Bahamas, etc, but would they need their entire itinerary (hashtags) on one topic?  If I'm reading your information correctly, each person/topic would only be in one region at a time.  Seems that one hashtag would do that.  I could see having 2 or 3 if they're moving from region to region within a short time.  If it's not so much which people, but which regions, you could have a topic for each region that folks would add to when they get there.

Duane

I have a group of boaters who travel up and down the east coast, over to the Bahamas, up into Canada, and down the inland river system (some are doing the Great Loop).  The group was intended to allow members to post their cruising regions son folks would know when/where other are traveling, but there are about 20 regions.  I set it up so each region had its own hashtag, but with a limit of 5 it drastically reduces the effectiveness of the group...as in not worth doing.

Any suggestions would be more than welcome.

Peace,
Tom

How soon will next time be?  I just designed a group based on more hashtags, but am now dead in the water.  (I need twice that many.)

Tom

Not right now. It's an artifact of how I store things in the database (insert a "I'd do it differently next time" here).

Thanks,
Mark 

I'm guessing differently means a join on a lookup table rather columns in one table.

Best,

Glenn