When you are switching from Slack to Microsoft Teams it is often required to transfer Slack data to Teams, or at least to provide a convenient way to access Slack message and file history in Teams without having access to the original Slack workspace. In this article I’m going to show several alternative ways to …
During the installation of the Backupery for Slack app to a Slack workspace, you may notice the following yellow banner: The warning message is removed by Slack if the app is added to Slack App Directory. However, Slack policy states that they does not accept apps that export or backup message data: The policy text …
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Table of Contents 1. General information In this article, you will learn more about the data conversion settings for Backupery for Slack and Backupery for Slack Export applications. You will also see the example output produced by the apps as well as an explanation of how to read the exported messages and threads, how to …
Sometimes you need to share the data exported by Backupery apps with other users. For example, you may have exported data from the system your team is not using anymore, but you want to keep the data available for future/historical reference. Or maybe you want to provide quick access to some internal data for a …
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Sometimes we need to convert our Slack DMs (Direct Messages) to a channel. If we’re talking about Group DM, it is very easy to do, here is how. The situation becomes a little more complicated if we are talking about one-to-one DM, a usual DM between two members. There is no built-in option to convert …
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Slack is a highly popular collaboration tool that is used by teams all over the world. In this post we will see how to export data from a Slack Workspace or Org. You can use the Slack built-in export tool, or use the Backupery for Slack tool to export the data. Backupery for Slack was …
Sometimes we need to search for some text in exports produced by Backupery apps. Basically, the exported data is represented in text format. Even if we’re talking about HTML exports, we can treat this format as text. So searching for some term in the exported data can be treated as searching through file contents. Here …
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We are exited to introduce a cloud version of our Backupery for Slack tool – Backupery for Slack Cloud! You can think about the cloud version of the app as the desktop version hosted in a cloud. It means you don’t need to install anything on your computer, but you get the same results as …
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By default, the maximum path length limit in Windows is 260 characters. So if you see “The specified path is too long. Shorten the path or enable NTFS long paths in your system.” error it means that the length of some paths that are processed by the Backupery application is more than 260. There are …
By default, the maximum path length limit in Windows is 260 characters. However, if the application is properly manifested, it is possible to remove the limitation on Windows 10 (v. 1607 or later) so the application will support the paths that are longer than 260 characters. There are alternative ways to allow the application to …
