Technical Question: Saving My Livejournal - Best Methods?

Factual Questions
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There is a rumor that livejournal.com may be shutting its doors soon. Having been a poster to lj since December 2003, with over 1200 entries - this concerns me.

LJ offers a few methods for saving your journal - downloading month-by-month to a .csv or .txt file (which means I lose all my formatting and pictures) or downloading entry by entry (umm - over a thousand times? egad!)

However, I’m hoping some of you wonderful people might possible know of any third-party clients that I might be able to use that would be a little more entry-friendly?

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

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Two sites that people in my friends list are using:

http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive/
LJ-Sec — LiveJournal

No idea how well they work, but my friends are okay with them.

3

I’ve seen this recommended:

From LJ Book to BlogBooker... - turns entries into a .pdf.

I used to use LJ all the time. Better save those 5+ year old entries soon.

4

I used both, just to be “sure” and I really like ljarchive better, in terms of being able to find entries, and the interface, etc.

I don’t think LJ’s shutting down, but hey, you never know. I had a photo site go out of business on me after years of uploading, once…

5

Thanks for the feedback! (everyone, actually)

The photo thing scares me too - I’ve been archiving pics.

I once lost all my data when my computers were put out on the curb - since then I’ve turned to more online back-ups - but now I feel like I need to back-up in triplicate. I’m just such a gypsy - I worry how much paper I lose as I travel along in life.

6

Wow, really? I’d never heard of this. I’ve only been on since 2004 or 5, but I do have up to 2007 backed up already. I guess I’m glad I did. Thanks for the links, though guys - should save lots of time!

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Livejournal pages don’t seem to be loading now, guys.

8

Looks like a maintenance issue after all.

9

i went ahead and used ljarchive - and i like it also. Thanks again :slight_smile:

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They laid off a good chunk of their staff in the last few days, which is making people nervous.