LJ to Dreamwidth in a hurry (5 minutes)

[cellio]

Dear 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.

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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.

Comments

[illariy]

Thanks for this handy guide! I have been a DW user since 2009 but I wanted to update the imported comments. Trying to import threw up this error in my DW inbox: "Your import has failed to import.
XMLRPC failure: Terms of Service agreement required"

I think this is on the LJ side of things...

[damont]

I'm glad I migrated my LJ postings before thie new TOS occurred. I may have to stop multiposting, and am not sure what I'm going to do with my LJ. Having the permanent account was nice but I think this is going to kill LJ, later if not sooner.

[unique_name_123]

Thanks for sharing all of this. I have requested the import and see who moved here. Do you recommend nuking LJ or just not using it?

[damont]

I wasn't using the DW cross-poster, and had no intentions of doing so. I will likely stop posting things on both places, though. There is a small number of people whose intentions going forward I need to find out before abandoning LJ entirely. But I will not accept the new TOS for longer than I absolutely must to finish getting out cleanly.

[richardf8]

Hey Monica,

Thanks for the quick tutorial. Worked like a champ. The settings came right over, and I expect I will see my entries speedily and in our day.