Exit Strategy

[friedlinguini]

As per my previous post, I've made a local copy of my journal with ljArchive, and also reposted everything on InsaneJournal under the same username. If LJ suddenly dies a horrible death I can be found there. If anybody wants to keep in touch via other means and I don't already have your info, please leave a comment. They will be screened

Comments

[namibiacoco]

Is it more or can i not use ljArchive with mac??? I'm so lost with this stuff!

[friedlinguini]

ljArchive doesn't work on Macs, but I did find a program called Antennapedia that works on Macs and can move your posts from LJ to an LJ clone like InsaneJournal. It doesn't save comments, though.

[namibiacoco]

What format does ljArchive save in? I have a PC that I could use to back up the lj and then move to my external..then to my mac???Thanks for being brilliant, it is appreciated!

[friedlinguini]

It uses its own format. It follows some conventions that might theoretically allow other programs to use it, but I don't know of any that would. It's also able to export to HTML files that you could read in a browser, but that loses some of the nice searching and indexing functionality that you would otherwise get within ljArchive. In my poking around I've seen a lot of grumbling about the lack of backup options for the Mac.

[deelcie]

Eh? But I just found you! I looked for the Mrs. but couldn't find her.. I've never blogged here before...I'm over on blogger. I registered here forever ago but never got used to the format. I suppose I will go look for you over on InsaneJournal...

[friedlinguini]

Nah, this is my regular journal. There was a bit of worry recently that LiveJournal might go under, so I backed things up over there. The Mrs. actually decided to move on from LJ a couple of weeks ago.

[deelcie]

Where she go?

[friedlinguini]

I don't think she's blogging right now. Facebook is probably her biggest online presence.