Cozz says:

I decided another post would be better, since a few friends both here and on LJ seem to be having trouble with LJ Archive, ect.

• LJ Book is a well-known site that turns your LJ or IJ into a PDF, and then later, if you want it, book form. Mostly for writers, but it's been used very heavily the last few days to back up LJ's. The site is down constantly lately because of overload to the servers, and it's hard to grab a time when the conversion will actually go through because of the traffic. Still, if you can manage to sneak through traffic and get your PDF, the service is completely free as far as I can tell, and it works on all systems because it's totally online.



• LJ Dump is a program that works with Python and it's usable on both Linux, Mac & Windows (and just about every system that uses Python). The program is probably confusing to new users (it is for me), so there's a lj community for the program if you have any serious questions. I tried running this one, but the terminal use is confusing (since I'm not big on terminals), so I "dumped" this. Heh!



• Instead, I found this site for Linux people (may work with Mac, too, come to think of it). All you have to do is open a terminal, copy/paste the first code (while online), and then copy/paste the second one with your specific changes. This works automatically with LJ and it converts every post in your journal into a txt file in your puter (in Linux, it'll put them in your home folder, BTW). If you have a lot of posts, it'll take a while, but it works! All posts are organized by subject title, not date. Still, it's easy to search through them if you're using Konqueror. It worked just fine for me! ^^
  
  The only thing is, he says all you have to do is change the top variable to make it work on something like IJ, but I'm too brain melty to figure out how, right now. So instead, I went looking for other, more stupid-friendly alternatives...



• For Windows users, there's also LJ Sec (sorta like lj archive). Instructions for this program, here, and another set here.



• Antennapedia posted yet another alternative for all three (Windows, Linux, Mac)... similar to LJ Sec (transfers your entire LJ to another journal service, like IJ as backup). All you do is download the zip file / tar file / whichever, and read the instructions. I'm still working on this one! (Because I think the idea of transferring cozzybabbles (yes, it does communities!) to LJ would be kewl.)



• Mac Book also works with LJ, from what I hear! For Mac users, obviously. ^^



• There's also this from LJ itself, if you're computer savvy. Apparently, you CAN use this to backup your stuff and put it all on Wordpress.



• And this thing--another perl! Hee!



• XJournal for Mac.



• Another Windows program.
  
  
  
  ...And I'm totally done now. Hee!!