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~didja just pitch up from mars? (sherlock) wrote,
@ 2007-12-06 23:43:00

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LJ-Sec Tutorial

LJ-SEC HOW TO

MOVING A JOURNAL

I just did it for http://karma-apple.insanejournal.com/ and it worked beautifully.

1) DOWNLOAD LJ-sec, run it.
2) Change the configuration to GJ

3) Login
4) Select the posts you want to move. MAKE SURE TO SELECT FO ENTRIES IF YOU WANT THEM

5) Journal --> repost entries

6) Input your information, make sure to change the interface to IJ (or wherever you are going)

7) Done.

MOVING A COMMUNITY

Follow the above, but before step 3 click 'get subscribed communities'

Choose the one you want to post from.

MOVING TO A COMMUNITY

During step 6 unclick 'backdate entries' and click 'get subscribed communities'

Choose the one you want to post to.

(You can combine these obviously if you are moving from a comm to a comm)

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	(Anonymous) 2008-05-03 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	I really wanted to move my entries from GJ to LJ but I got this message (http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mwwon6.jpg) (http://img604.imageshack.us/content.php?page=blogpost&files=img167/6218/mwwon6.jpg) Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2008-05-03 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	Urk the right pic is this: http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6218/mwwon6.jpg (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sherlock 2008-05-03 11:15 pm UTC (link)
	Unfortunately this isn't an error in the program it is an error at GJ. Their database is probably so shot it can't handle the requests anymore :\ I would suggest trying at a different time of the day? That's all the advice I can give you, unfortunately. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	waveblade 2009-01-07 12:19 am UTC (link)
	Hey this helped me alot thanks. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sherlock 2009-01-07 01:10 am UTC (link)
	Glad to hear it! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	seratonation 2009-01-07 01:06 am UTC (link)
	hi! im new, im backing up my lj so this helped a lot especially since i have a bunch of comms i want to mive with me :D thank you so much! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sherlock 2009-01-07 01:10 am UTC (link)
	Awesome, I'm happy to help :} (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seratonation 2009-01-07 01:13 am UTC (link)
	oh oh! it didnt work, none of teh posts got cross posted :( the error for all of them (as far as i could tell, there are 68 posts :S) was this: Error message: Client error: Unknown metadata: personifi_word_count help? im going to try again (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sherlock 2009-01-07 02:02 am UTC (link)
	Trying to figure it out for you! While I do that, could you possibly take screencaps of the steps you're taking (feel free to block out any passwords and what have you) so I can double check everything? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seratonation 2009-01-07 02:18 am UTC (link)
	:D yeah sure, gimme a minute, where do you want me to put the pictures up, does ij have scrapbook i can upload to or should i use tinypic or whats your preferance? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sherlock 2009-01-07 02:23 am UTC (link)
	Tinypic would probably work best, IJ doesn't have any sort of scrapbook (yet!) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

seratonation
2009-01-07 02:47 am UTC (link)

lol, thats cool

1. http://i39.tinypic.com/51zd3o.jpg

2. http://i43.tinypic.com/hwwrjm.jpg

3. http://i44.tinypic.com/27zg37m.jpg

4. http://i44.tinypic.com/9k8f13.jpg

5. http://i41.tinypic.com/30ww228.jpg

6. http://i40.tinypic.com/11j4ps4.jpg

7. http://i41.tinypic.com/noyonc.jpg

here we go,if you need any more caps let me know (like what happened between here and here)

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	sherlock 2009-01-07 02:57 am UTC (link)
	I tried recreating the scenario with another community and had no problem -- so I joined the one you're trying to move, but can't move it since I don't have posting access. Would you mind adding me (~adarkheartdawns) so I can try and move some posts and see what happens? I'll leave right after the diagnostic, promise :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sherlock 2009-01-07 03:06 am UTC (link)
	You know what, I'm a big dummy. When transferring (http://i44.tinypic.com/9k8f13.jpg), unclick 'preserve metadata' -- its possible the icon set you're using at your comm is not supported at IJ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seratonation 2009-01-07 03:12 am UTC (link)
	ok, trying that now. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	seratonation 2009-01-07 03:14 am UTC (link)
	tacklehugs it totally worked! thank you! also if you want to hang around and see what i have up you are totally welcome XD (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sherlock 2009-01-07 03:15 am UTC (link)
	Great! If I'm ever in the LJ neighbourhood again, I'll peruse, I'm sure :} (Reply to this) (Parent)

	seratonation 2009-01-07 02:21 am UTC (link)
	hang on hang on, do i need to have a GJ as well for this to work? cz i did it for my lj to ij with none, is it different for the community shift? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sherlock 2009-01-07 02:25 am UTC (link)
	no you don't have to have GJ; basically you would follow step 1, 2 (change to livejournal, not greatestjournal), and then skip down to where it says how to move a community. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seratonation 2009-01-07 02:26 am UTC (link)
	ok cool :D for a moment i was like omg i was doing i wrong D: (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kikifitz 2009-01-07 12:41 pm UTC (link)
	I tried doing this and I keep getting ther error message: Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately. An item with the same key has already been added. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sherlock 2009-01-07 01:43 pm UTC (link)
	I get that occasionally too. Try hitting continue and going on from there. Sometimes it crashes but it almost always works for me to do that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kikifitz 2009-01-07 02:01 pm UTC (link)
	I did that a few times.....but nothing seems to be happening. I'll try again.... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sherlock 2009-01-07 03:45 pm UTC (link)
	Sorry about the less than helpful advice -- it's the one error I haven't had any luck combating. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	silver_etoile 2009-01-07 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	question: does this make a copy of all your entries to the new journal or just copy them all over? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	silver_etoile 2009-01-07 03:41 pm UTC (link)
	wait. that didn't quite make sense. Is it making a copy of your journal or moving everything completely over? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sherlock 2009-01-07 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	It makes a copy unless you tell it to do otherwise. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	silver_etoile 2009-01-07 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	oh okay. good. that would suck if i screwed everything up on two journals -.- (Reply to this) (Parent)