you know what Mad-Eye Moody used to say...

[slumber]

If you've been living under a rock, you should probably know that LJ has laid off a lot of people, and basically, people are either saying it's the end of LJ or that people are just getting spooked all over again.

The funny thing is, it's actually GJ that bit the dust. :|

Well, whatever, I would rather just make sure I've got my LJ backed up properly. So I remembered my password for insanejournal (username, by the by, is also slumber, which is also my handle in journalfen), and now I am shopping around for a good back-up program. I'm using a Mac, and I'd prefer it if the program also imported comments from the entries.

Flist, any good ideas/suggestions?

ETA: I have started friending some of you on IJ, which I did oh-so-systematically by friending one person I knew in IJ, and from that person's flist, looking at who else I knew, and from there, well, you get it. :| Haven't backed my LJ up there yet, but yes. You may also leave your IJ/JF username here and I'll get to friending.

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[fishpatrol]

I'm not sure if works with Macs, but LJArchive worked well for me -- it's easy to navigate entries and comments. :)

[slumber.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to test that; thanks! :D

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

I used this, LJ Migrate (Mac friendly). It won't transfer the comments to IJ, but it will copy them to your computer.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks! I was trying that earlier, actually, but like. Couldn't figure out how to work the files and the links to the tutorials were not working. Thank you. :)

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the back up!

[wenelda.livejournal.com]

I always use LJArchive. I think if you do a google search for it you should find it.

I'm going to add you on insanejournal, my name is wenelda over there too.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Thanks, and I think you added me ages ago, during the first scare. I just never got around to settling there at all, but let's see how this whole thing works out. Hopefully LJ never goes away. :|

[abovethestars.livejournal.com]

I haven't done this either. I deleted all my GJ bookmarks today. I didn't know there was a version that worked well for macs! Thanks!

Hopefully LJ is being truthful with us that they are just reorganizing and not going anywhere. But we know not to trust them completely!

[slumber.livejournal.com]

I hate that GJ is gone. I played in an RPG there that meant a lot to me. Wah.

I thought I saw a couple of resources for LJ-back-up-and-exporting but I wasn't sure if they would have been applicable to Macs. I figured since a lot of my flisters were Mac users, someone ought to know what to do. :P

And really, if LJ DOES go down the drain, I hope they at least give us notice so we can all back up our stuff.

[ant-power.livejournal.com]

I don't want LJ to go away!! I have all my neatly organised memories here!! And other important things!! I'm am crossing my fingers and assuming it's all going to blow over!!

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[slumber.livejournal.com]

I know! :\ Fingers crossed for me too, but I guess backing up isn't a bad idea either, you know? *sigh*

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[ant-power.livejournal.com]

Yes, a very sensible idea indeed! And I might also save all my memorified fics into a word doc or something, though I have hundreds and it will be kind of annoying. But it's taken me years to collect all those awesome fics, so I guess I should!

OMG, I just pressed some weird thing on my keyboard and now this message is typing out backwards, wtf?? If this comes out looking strange, it's totally not because I'm an idiot. Well, much. XP

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[slumber.livejournal.com]

If it helps, I'm fairly sure that if LJ were to go away, people would be given a fair amount of time to back things up before LJ closes shop.

LOL what? :| *pets* :P

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[ant-power.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's true. And I'm pretty sure that it's just one of those things where it's a big panic over nothing.

LOL, the comment came out fine, so I sound like an idiot! But seriously, something weird happened and everything was suddenly right-justified in the comment box and what I was typing was coming out at the start of the sentence! I dont even know!! It was scary!!!

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[postingwhore.livejournal.com]

I'm pulchritude on IJ and JF, but lol I've never used them. :P

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Heh, never used either myself, but hey, it's insurance. :P

[thethirdbar.livejournal.com]

i got an email the other day from insanejournal telling me i had requested the password for my journal... only it also said my journal was called slumber. I WAS REALLY CONFUSED. i meant to message you about it on twitter but then i forgot. but yeah, what the hell was that about? :|


....also i really really wish we had backed up SE omg. :( :( :(

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Well, remember when you made my IJ for me while I was running all over Chicago trying to, like, enroll in classes?

I actually never ended up logging into that IJ account to change the password, and I haven't actually touched the account since. *facepalms* When I never received the email IJ was supposed to give me I figured it must have gone to you, but thank goodness I was able to find the password in GChat archives, lol. So I've changed it. :| Sorry for the confusion. :|

I KNOW. Urgh. You know, even years after the game imploded I still like going there every now and then to read shit. Blegh. :\

[thethirdbar.livejournal.com]

no, no i do not remember that. :| WAIT... maybe some hazy recollecting going on, but man. i was so confused when i got that email. i couldn't decide whether it meant i'd been hacked or you'd been hacked or i'd hacked you or you'd hacked me or something. very puzzling. :| but, suddenly it all makes sense.


i liked doing that, too. justin is all gone forever now. :( :( also, now there is no record of what we devoted an entire two years worth of spare time to, so it just looks like we did nothing at all when in actuality we wrote 1000s of words worth of story. boo.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

*pets* :| sorry. :|

:\ i know. :( there was some serious awesomeness in there. *sigh*