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melonbutterfly ([personal profile] melonbutterfly) wrote in [community profile] lj_refugees2010-09-07 03:56 am
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Archive?

I was just wondering, are you familiar with the ljArchive? I tried setting it up for my DW journal (paranoia, thy name is me) by making a new archive and ordering it to connect to the DW server, but it keeps failing to connect. I checked the spelling and everything; it's definitely not (my) human failure. Does anyone know if there's a dwArchive or something?
(Google-fu failed. I don't come bothering you lightly, but, my paranoia. I can't bear not archiving my DW journal, especially since I'm in the process of deleting my LJ accounts.)

Edit: I don't mean importing. I mean the ljArchive which downloads your entries and comments so you can have them on your computer and offline access your journal; you can also write entries in there and it uploads them for you.
I need that for DW; I use it as a sort of backup. In case my journal accidentally gets deleted and I fail to notice until it's purged. Or in case the whole site dies. (...I mentioned my paranoia, right?)
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[personal profile] fairytalewishes 2010-09-07 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
There is an import feature where you can import your LJ entries here to DW. Organize> Import. :D
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[personal profile] melonbutterfly 2010-09-07 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
No, I don't mean importing. I mean archiving; ljArchive is a programm that downloads all your entries and comments so you can have them on your computer.
http://community.livejournal.com/ljarchive/profile

Thanks nevertheless! :)

[personal profile] fairytalewishes 2010-09-07 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Ahhh, sorry! I see what you're talking about now! :)
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[personal profile] m7storyteller 2010-09-07 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
I really don't know if there is one, but someone from support might have an idea. But yeah, I can't blame you for wanting to do that, I'd be the same way.
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[personal profile] melonbutterfly 2010-09-07 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
I'll try again tomorrow, maybe it's a temporal error, but if it still doesn't work, I'll try support. Thanks for the suggestion!
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[personal profile] starstrider 2010-09-07 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
No idea. But...could you let us know when/if you find out anything? It would be very helpful. If I come across anything, I'll reply with it.
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[personal profile] melonbutterfly 2010-09-07 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, I will! :)
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[personal profile] jhumor 2010-09-07 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Here's their list of clients:
http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Compatible_clients

I don't have a windows machine anymore, so i can't tell you how to make lj-sec work. My only option seems to be LJmigrate. But I'm not quite ready to try that yet.

The other clients all seem to be for posting purposes and not downloading. The biggest downside of LJmigrate is that it doesn't download comments.
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[personal profile] melonbutterfly 2010-09-07 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! That was helpful (if disappointing).

That's too bad, that LJmigrate doesn't download comments, they're a big part of a journal, I think. I hope someone figures out how to work ljArchive with DW or something, I'll feel so much better then.
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[personal profile] hyaena 2010-09-07 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
It seems that many of the clients on that list aren't up to date. I'm speaking as a Mac user, so I don't know if it's the same way with Windows. Anyway, I spent a considerable amount of time downloading different clients that either couldn't connect to DW or outright crashed whenever I tried to. I ended up downloading one that supposedly didn't work with DW, but I have made multiple posts with it, and it hasn't given me any trouble. I sent a report in a support request because I didn't know where else to send it.
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[personal profile] melonbutterfly 2010-09-07 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
I tried the ljArchive again, but it just keeps downloading sync index, whatever that means. :/
Will you tell me what the support team do?
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[personal profile] lurkingcat 2010-09-07 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
That's odd because it's working fine for me - I'm using Windows 7 (64 bit version and the number of small programs that don't work with that is kind of frustrating) and ljArchive version 0.97. I just checked the Alternate Server box and directed it to http://www.dreamwidth.org and it worked first time :(

What sort of error message are you getting when it fails to connect?
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[personal profile] melonbutterfly 2010-09-07 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
At first it said "failed to connect" but now it does connect (I suppose?) and starts "downloading sync index", and loads and loads and loads... I think I'll try downloading it again, maybe I have an old version?
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2010-09-07 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that there are some reports filed with Support that suggest it works with some people but not with others.

I just put in a suggestion for a fully-featured Dreamwidth-side backup utility, as well as making everything better to work with for clients. There's already the basic archive thing, for entries only, and then there's the comment thing, *somewhere*, and that's not particularly well documented on either side of the code fork.

http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/418369.html
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[personal profile] caffienekitty 2017-04-14 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Very late to the thread, but I use LJArchive on a Mac and I found it did bizarre things or failed to connect if there were any non alphanumeric characters in any of the passwords.
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