Comments | gypsy1969: Saving what you've written

gypsy1969

Saving what you've written

Jan 24, 2009 12:00

Will Shetterly has left LJ again. It's crazy, how folks get so worked up over some things. I enjoyed reading his posts and if I want to continue reading them then I need to go to blogger to do so.

I was reading his posts and he was talking about folks deleting their posts. I've had 2 friends who have left LJ and they just deleted their entire ( Read more... )

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poopntinkle January 24 2009, 18:04:32 UTC

Hey, another one of my friends had the same question about saving their LJ. Here is a copy of what I send them.
I am also interested in keeping my journal for "posterity". I know that 10 years down the line (I'll be 67! Yikes) I will enjoy reading it.
I am liking www.ljbook.com. It's free. It saves your LJ to a PDF which you have to download within an hour. It only takes a couple of minutes to create the PDF. It can include photos and comments etc. You choose.
The sample copy print looks small, but when you view the file as downloaded it is quite wonderful!

lupine52 January 25 2009, 05:54:47 UTC

I believe there is some sorta LJ backup that my friends have used but all it does is print your journal. As for putting it to CD well if I hear of something I will let you know.

dossier January 25 2009, 17:30:04 UTC

try , it backs it up on the hard drive.

gypsy1969 February 5 2009, 21:17:54 UTC

I need to try that.

dossier January 25 2009, 17:28:32 UTC

http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive/ is what I use to back up LJ.

I dunno, I guess it depends on the purpose of the journal. Mine in general is not a diary, per se, and so 99.99% of what is posted is for general consumption: what point in posting it privately? I do make the occasional note to myself on story ideas private, thought that's pretty much it.