Due to a popular demand, I produced an executable version of the script that merges tags. It can be downloaded from here. While at that, I've made some minor changes, hopefully it works better now
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I'm pretty much a computer nerd, but I honestly have no idea how to run this. o_O I haven't messed around with scripts hardly at all, but this is just.. not looking right.
1. Open up a console window (Win-R, cmd, Enter) 2. CD to the directory, that the script was extracted into. 3. Run it (merge_tags.exe) with no arguments 4. Now that you have the instructions on screen, run it again with the various options specified.
1. Extract the zip to someplace easy to get to. (C:/merge_tags for example)
2. To actually change the tags, you must go to tags.txt and type out the tags you want replaced with what. (you must put it in the format of TAG_YOU_WANT_TO_STAY,Tag_you_want_merged. So I'd put video games,xbox,ps2,gc,DS. This would merge all the system tags into just video games tag) Save it.
3. Open a command prompt. [Start]->Run->cmd
4. Navigate to the folder.. type "cd .." until you get to the "C:/" then type "cd merge_tags" if your files are in C:/merge_tags
5. Now type "merge_tags.exe -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -f tags.txt" (without the quotes, and of course replace username with your username, etc.) and hit enter. If you did it right it will process the tags and you will see URLs from your journal being processed!
Notes: -If you put your username and password in wrong, it will NOT tell you, so if it gives you a message such as "0 URLS found" you did something wrong. Try making your username lowercase. -This process takes quite awhile.. took me ~5 minutes for 41 tags (on dialup) So do a rest run to make sure everything works before making a huge amount of tag merges.
I downloaded it, extracted it, and I got this.
D:\merge_tags\
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_hashlib.pyd
_socket.pyd
_ssl.pyd
bz2.pyd
library.zip
merge_tags.exe
MSVCR71.dll
python25.dll
tags.txt
unicodedata.pyd
w9xpopen.exe
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Total 0 folder(s); 11 file(s)
Total files size: 5 MB; 5112 KB; 5234973 Bytes
If i try to run merge_tags.exe, it flashes something in a DOS screen then immedietly shuts off.
Finally got it screenshotted and it says something like..
Usage: merge_tags.exe [options]
Options:
--h, --help show this help message and exit
-u USER, --user=USER Username to log in as
etc.
If i try to run w9xpopen.exe, it says this program was not designed for standalone use.
I dont see any instructions at all, so I'm pretty lost.
If someone could, you know, walk me through how to use this or write a readme or something, that would be awesome.
Contact info in my journal :3
Thanks so much! :D
~Cait
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2. CD to the directory, that the script was extracted into.
3. Run it (merge_tags.exe) with no arguments
4. Now that you have the instructions on screen, run it again with the various options specified.
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Im gunna write "Idiots guide to this program"
1. Extract the zip to someplace easy to get to. (C:/merge_tags for example)
2. To actually change the tags, you must go to tags.txt and type out the tags you want replaced with what. (you must put it in the format of TAG_YOU_WANT_TO_STAY,Tag_you_want_merged. So I'd put video games,xbox,ps2,gc,DS. This would merge all the system tags into just video games tag) Save it.
3. Open a command prompt. [Start]->Run->cmd
4. Navigate to the folder.. type "cd .." until you get to the "C:/" then type "cd merge_tags" if your files are in C:/merge_tags
5. Now type "merge_tags.exe -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -f tags.txt" (without the quotes, and of course replace username with your username, etc.) and hit enter. If you did it right it will process the tags and you will see URLs from your journal being processed!
Notes:
-If you put your username and password in wrong, it will NOT tell you, so if it gives you a message such as "0 URLS found" you did something wrong. Try making your username lowercase.
-This process takes quite awhile.. took me ~5 minutes for 41 tags (on dialup) So do a rest run to make sure everything works before making a huge amount of tag merges.
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