[info]heiko in [info]07refugees

There is a way to do it after all.

I have come across the capability to import both the post and the comments at lj.rossia.org. An example of an imported event is here.

It seems that it is possible to import the comments because of the capability to add @lj at the end of the username in the site that one migrates to.

I have no idea what the posts are about, since I do not speak Russian. Please inform me if it is not advisable to link to others' personal entries.


I am not technologically inclined, and it seems to be a site capability moreso than a program. As it stands, LJ-sec does not import comments (which is a problem because for those of us who have stayed on LJ for a significant number of time may at times have more valuable exchange in the comments page than in the original post)

Posted on Jan. 9th, 2008 at 01:05 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]antiaol

LJ Archive claims to download posts and comments, but I never got a chance to try it since I didn't know about it until after I deleted everything.
Posted on Jan. 9th, 2008 04:38 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]heiko

I use LJ Archive to download them. But since my computer is old, it is perhaps even more unreliable to archive on my computer more than reposting it. To repost it to another LJ-based service, I used LJ-sec, which does not support comment.
Posted on Jan. 9th, 2008 05:00 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]nostariel

How long ago did you delete? If it's been less than 6 months there's a chance it might still be on the servers- you could temporarily undelete, archive everything, and then delete it again (if you wanted).
Posted on Jan. 9th, 2008 11:52 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]antiaol

Wait a second..are you kidding? I can undelete my entire LiveJournal, including 600 comments? *passes out cold* Please tell me how. I deleted it around Dec. 11th - it's two-year anniversary.
Posted on Jan. 10th, 2008 02:08 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]antiaol

Oh, I see what you mean. Undelete the entire journal. It can't be done. Me and [info]alchemy are both out of luck: we chose to delete our entries post-by-post, you know, the much harder and completely irreversible way. At least I didn't have *cough* over 2,000 posts to delete one by one, unlike *cough* some people did.
Posted on Jan. 10th, 2008 02:14 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]nostariel

Yeah, that's what I meant - *wince* - sorry! You might check the Google cache, CoralCDN, or Archive.org on the off chance they might have a cached version somewhere....
Posted on Jan. 10th, 2008 06:03 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]antiaol

Thanks for the last tip, but been there, did that and no t-shirt to show for it, either (but I have *not* tried Coral yet...never even occurred to me - so if I were to find my entire LJ and all the comments there - highly unlikely, IMO - how would I go about restoring them like you are suggesting?).
Posted on Jan. 10th, 2008 06:38 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]nostariel

In the unlikely event you did find a copy, you wouldn't be able to restore the journal, but at least you could save copies of the posts and comments most important to you with something like Scrapbook, Httrack, or even just screencaps.

*shrugs*
Posted on Jan. 11th, 2008 01:04 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]antiaol

Oh, I see. I have all my entries saved to my spare hard drive, just none of the comments. And honestly, I would never turn Anti-AOL into a book...there is no continuity to it whatsover. I post when I feel like it (not on a schedule), and I often go months without updating. I probably will stop updatng for good some time this year, when AOL finally goes down the crapper like I've been waiting for it to. I'm tired of writing about them and I've been tired of it since early fall of last year. But thanks for all the suggestions, some very good stuff.
Posted on Jan. 11th, 2008 03:45 am (UTC) | | Parent | Reply