LJArchive

[realthog]

Every now and then -- mostly then -- I try to make a habit of downloading my LJ using the excellent tool LJArchive, which some kind soul made available a few years back.

I've just discovered that, in one of the recent LJ software upgrades, there's been a change made that has had the inadvertent side-effect of making LJArchive no longer functional. The developer of LJArchive has moved on to other projects, apparently, and is no longer upgrading this one.

Does anyone know if there's any other program that performs the same function? I'd be ever so grateful for the info!

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the tip! I gave it a try but, alas, without success. It said I needed to change the journal's format to UTF8.

To this technically unastute mind, UTF is a typo and needs a question mark.

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

Hmm...seems like I ran across this some time ago, and twiddled a bit somewhere. There are a couple of FAQs on it:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=143
which leads to
http://www.livejournal.com/utf8convert.bml

As I recall, it didn't seem to make a lick of difference one way or another to my LJ experience. Maybe look into it? Meanwhile, I will also try to make an LJbook of my own and see if that service still functions. I've been meaning to do that for 2011 anyway.