Saving my old LJ entries for posterity

[raincitygirl]

If 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.

Comments

[twistedchick]

I exported my LJ back when I moved to DW; I did not export The Free Speech Zone because a) a friend had offered to take over running it for a while, and b) it was all topical news links that are certainly dead now.

And you're not old. You're the same age you always were, with more experience at being it.

[raincitygirl]

Smart!

[raincitygirl]

Absolutely! I’m not old, I’m the same age I always was, just with more experience. That’s an awesome way to look at it, and I think it should be on a fridge magnet!!! I would certainly buy a magnet that said that.

[astrothsknot]

i like the way you think about age

[nineveh_uk]

Thank you for the suggestion of BlogBooker, which I have just used. Very easy - though now I have a 3300 page PDF.

[raincitygirl]

Oh good, I’m glad it was useful. I actually used it myself. I was having trouble opening some of the CSV files i had saved from the Export Journal feature on LJ, so I decided to back up with BlogBooker. Like you, I now have an ENORMOUS pdf file.