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Will the old address types not work at some point in the future?
I am trying to move all my coins to the new address type, but I am getting a "Transaction Too Large" error. Is there an easy way to know how small I need to make it in order for it to go through?

At the protocol level, Legacy Addresses will always work, though it is always best to move funds to Bech32 Addresses.

When I check your address in the Explorer, you received 10000 payments or outputs of about 10 RIC from a pool. When you send coins, it will have to pick these outputs (which become inputs in your transaction) to form new outputs that will be spendable using the new address, so if you want to send for example 10000 RIC, it will have to take about 1000 outputs.

Each input/output makes the transaction larger, and there is a limit of 100 kB per transaction, which is reached by spending about 550 outputs (for Legacy Addresses; with Bech32 the outputs take less place and you can spend more than 1000 of them in one transaction).

Thus, with the above assumption (about 10000 outputs of 10 RIC), you should be able to send your coins by batches of 550 x 10 RIC = 5500 RIC.
Make multiple transactions of about 5500 RIC to your new addresses and you should be fine.

If you are receiving a lot of payments, you should "consolidate" your outputs once a while by sending coins to yourself (to the same address or a different one) so the many outputs become just one or two.

I see, thanks for the explanation!