LJ to Dreamwidth in a hurry (5 minutes)
Apr. 7th, 2017 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioDear LJ friends who are pressed for time:
Yeah, having to do this in a hurry sucks. But if you can spare just 5 minutes, you can copy your LJ content over to Dreamwidth. You can defer actually doing anything with it until later, but at least you'll have it somewhere other than the Russian servers.
**Note** (pointed out in a comment): you can only import your journal here if you've accepted the LJ TOS.
Step 1: create an account on Dreamwidth:
You can skip everything other than choosing a name and password for now. Come back and browse account settings when you have some time. (You can even skip the email-validation step for now, though you should do it at some point.)
Step 2: go to the Import Content tool:
Choose LiveJournal from the list. Enter your LJ user name and password. Check all the boxes in the "what to import" list. Click submit. Wait a while (possibly a couple days because of current load).
That's it.
Don't worry; your journal entries will keep their security groups. You're not leaking private stuff to the world.
When you have another 2 minutes: claim the comments you posted over on LJ that have been migrated here. Get rid of that ugly "username.livejournal.com" and replace it with your DW account. You'll need to do this while your LJ account still exists.
Yeah, having to do this in a hurry sucks. But if you can spare just 5 minutes, you can copy your LJ content over to Dreamwidth. You can defer actually doing anything with it until later, but at least you'll have it somewhere other than the Russian servers.
**Note** (pointed out in a comment): you can only import your journal here if you've accepted the LJ TOS.
Step 1: create an account on Dreamwidth:
You can skip everything other than choosing a name and password for now. Come back and browse account settings when you have some time. (You can even skip the email-validation step for now, though you should do it at some point.)
Step 2: go to the Import Content tool:
Choose LiveJournal from the list. Enter your LJ user name and password. Check all the boxes in the "what to import" list. Click submit. Wait a while (possibly a couple days because of current load).
That's it.
Don't worry; your journal entries will keep their security groups. You're not leaking private stuff to the world.
When you have another 2 minutes: claim the comments you posted over on LJ that have been migrated here. Get rid of that ugly "username.livejournal.com" and replace it with your DW account. You'll need to do this while your LJ account still exists.