Saving my old LJ entries for posterity
Mar. 9th, 2022 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raincitygirlIf you want to save your old LJ entries, now might be the time.
There's a function on LJ called Export Journal, where your entries are turned into a CSV file you can download. But you have to do it one month at a time. So I backed up everything from April 2002 to August 2011 month by month. Tedious, but I might want those old entries again someday. That’s my hoarder mindset at work. If you don’t have the time, I hear from a friend there’s a site called BlogBooker that will do it all for you for $20. But I haven’t tried the service myself.
July 2011 is when I started crossposting everything to Dreamwidth. I probably should have backed up everything, in case DW goes kaput someday, but I’m not worrying about it right this minute.
I can’t believe I started my LJ in April 2002! That was two decades ago! I’m officially old.
There's a function on LJ called Export Journal, where your entries are turned into a CSV file you can download. But you have to do it one month at a time. So I backed up everything from April 2002 to August 2011 month by month. Tedious, but I might want those old entries again someday. That’s my hoarder mindset at work. If you don’t have the time, I hear from a friend there’s a site called BlogBooker that will do it all for you for $20. But I haven’t tried the service myself.
July 2011 is when I started crossposting everything to Dreamwidth. I probably should have backed up everything, in case DW goes kaput someday, but I’m not worrying about it right this minute.
I can’t believe I started my LJ in April 2002! That was two decades ago! I’m officially old.
