transferring from LJ

[miriam_e]

Gee, it's taking a long time to copy over all my LiveJournal entries to Dreamwidth.

I shouldn't be too surprised, considering I have about a decade of LJ stuff to copy, but I have to say, I'm getting a little worried that it seems to have stalled at 2003 for the last several days... perhaps longer.

Here's hoping it is just that large numbers of people are bogging the process down by all fleeing LJ at the same time.

Comments

[thorfinn]

Could be an issue on LJ's end, or possibly something to do with the text encoding, or something else weird.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=186

[miriam_e]

Aha! Thanks for the link to the FAQ. (I'm an idiot. I didn't think of checking that. Doh!) You're right, it is the encoding. I didn't realise Dreamwidth had been sending me messages (they haven't been getting emailed to me) which told me of the problem. The FAQ links to the inbox.

So it looks like some of my old LJ postings are prior to the change over to unicode. I'll have to fix them by hand as they pop up. No probs. Weird that it later failed at a different post.

Thanks David!

[thorfinn]

Neato. :-)

Also, your notifications settings are here:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=notifications