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raincitygirl ([personal profile] raincitygirl) wrote2022-03-09 05:58 pm

Saving my old LJ entries for posterity

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.
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[personal profile] nineveh_uk 2022-03-10 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the suggestion of BlogBooker, which I have just used. Very easy - though now I have a 3300 page PDF.