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Yahoo Answers data download doesn't open properly. I feel like I have my account in an Urn. Is Yahoo Trolling us for revenge?

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  • Jim2
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago
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    They said you had to notify them, and that it would actually be in computer code! a Json file! Incredible. We.will have to copy the actual text we went from the code! Even they should have the competence to give us 

    pdf files! If you actually got a download, right click it and click open with. Open with notepad, word pad, microsoft word. Or rename it to have a .txt extension. Example: rename to mydownload.txt. Or, as they say, Google for and download a JSON parser. But given what I have seen of Yahoo's programming, I would not be surprised if the file is indeed corrupt and unreadable by anything!!!

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