How to run hidejournal 0.3. (Slanted towards Windows users)

[hidejournal]

Make sure you're not using tags.

Because HideJournal was written before the introduction of tags to LiveJournal, it will strip tags from entries. You should expect to have to back them up and restore them by hand if you want to use the current release of HideJournal.
Download java

HideJournal requires java. You will need to download and install it

Comments

[momgoddess]

I can't get it to work, it doesn't seem to be doing anything. ???

[hythloday]

Can you tell me more precisely what happens?

1. Can you download it? Do you have a file called hidejournal-0.3.jar?
2. When you double-click on that file, does a window appear? If not, can you right-click, then run it with javaw or javaws?
3. When you enter your username and password and hit run, does it print "Hiding Mama Musings's entries?"

If none of these really describe your situation, can you write out exactly what steps you take up until the point where you become stuck?

[momgoddess]

Yes, it does all that. It says "Hiding Momgoddess's entries" but then it does nothing after that, it doesn't seem to be hiding any entries, I've tried it over and over and let it go for over and hour and looked and just nothing.

[hythloday]

Hmm, you don't have a huge number of entries - if you're on dialup or a slow, shared connection, and most of your old entries are friends-only already, you'll see this happening. I would suggest that you try running it overnight and seeing if that works, though it shouldn't take that long, I agree.

If that doesn't work, I'm testing an update to the client which should make the process a lot faster.

[eos_girl]

im having the same problem. its not hiding my entries, i tryed letting it run overnight but nothing happend,. it just said "hiding kutrinas public entries" and that was it..... and im on ADSL

[hythloday]

I just released a new version, so you might want to try that. It's at the same place: http://james.is.never.wrong.nu/code/hidejournal/

[eos_girl]

its still doing it, and i have the newest one on my computer...

[faerie]

I'm having the same problem.

[madhav]

Same here, even with the latest version.

[mauvaise]

Me too - using latest version.

[candyass420]

Same problem here

[pazix]

copy that

[jav]

me too.

[hythloday]

I just released a new version, so you might want to try that. It's at the same place: http://james.is.never.wrong.nu/code/hidejournal/

[hythloday]

thank you!