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skaizun asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 3 weeks ago

Why is the Yahoo Answers download contents showing only one answer?

Per the shutdown of Yahoo Answers, I downloaded just the Answers portal from the huge list of downloadable content from Yahoo. I got the resulting ZIP file two days later. I knew from the size, alone, that something was wrong: It was WAY too small:  the corresponding JSON data file was only 3k bytes long and had only ONE of my answers in it without the corresponding question to tie it to! I have dozens, if not hundreds of questions, answers, and comments/replies. Something is very wrong! Perhaps, the SQL Yahoo selected or retrieved resulted in only one record/row/item? Or, something similar is wrong with the building of the resulting ZIP file. I'm a computer programmer with over 40 years of experience! not to mention that I'm a computer repairman and webmaster (over 20 years of experience for the latter), so, hopefully, that shows I know what I'm doing! Please fix the problem and let users know to re-do their download before you nuke everything!!! (P.S. I downloaded other portals, such as Money and Stock and user info, but, got the same result: one record out of what should have been many!)

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  • Daniel
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    Maybe that's all It could Download 

  • 3 weeks ago

    I can't address the technical issues you mention, but as for not getting the corresponding question to your answer, I've read on this platform and in others that that is EXACTLY what is going to happen even if this works right:  You will only get YOUR question but not anyone else's answers to it, you will get only YOUR answer but not the question you were answering.  

    Jeez, what's the point then?  

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