For Windows Users

[mapsedge]

Backup your LJ:

http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ljarchive/ljArchive-0.9.7.exe

From download to install to backup: < 5 minutes.  Not bad.

~900 entries, ~1400 comments.

Comments

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Talk to my paranoid side, Bill. .Net architecture. Good, bad or indifferent?

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

If you have Windows XP - at least SP2 - you already have .NET. In any case, it's no big deal.

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

Apparently that ljArchive download is getting hammered -- can't get to it.

- Jeho

[ladyniniane.livejournal.com]

Keep trying - I got it about 2 hours ago. And it's installed and my main journal and two communities are now stored on my laptop. (And that was on a slow broadband wireless connection...)

I like this update - it's worth the wait.

[cronewyse.livejournal.com]

old journal 1361 entries, 14,210 comments...damn

Yeah, yeah, yeah...Typical IT Guy...

[iarraidh.livejournal.com]

"From download to install to backup: < 5 minutes"
Very simple, very easy - not.

Took 2 hours to get it; web site inaccessible.
After installing, once fired up it got 99% through the backup and stalled. Told me I had to set the encoding on my LJ and gave me bogus directions on how to do that.
Had to plink around LJ's helpless pages for about 20 minutes to find that nugget.
Then when restarted, it told me it couldn't sync because I had logged in too many times - try back in an hour.
Finally got a backup this morning.

(of course you know I'm just teasing with the 'typical IT Guy jibe)

Neat little features for analyzing your LJ once downloaded.
Big analysis - it says I'm sarcastic.
Who knew?

:)

Re: Yeah, yeah, yeah...Typical IT Guy...

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Huh...well it works fine for me.

End quote. :)

Re: Yeah, yeah, yeah...Typical IT Guy...

[iarraidh.livejournal.com]

> Huh...well it works fine for me.

I think that's on Page 7 of the I.T. Guy Little Red Book