The other day, I was playing around with the importer to see how it handled inactive icons, so I imported from a small LJ account. Everything seemed fine.
Today, with the crossposter going into alpha, I decide to import my actual journal. When I do, I notice that a block of seventeen entries from the very beginning of my journal did not carry over. ("Nap Bites Man" to "This is getting personal." on my LJ archive.) I make a note to post a bug report about it.
Before I do, I decide to get rid of the information from the dummy imports. I clear out the extra icons, then I start deleting the entries. I delete 7 of them before I notice that the next one has comments. This is odd, because they didn't have comments in the original journal, and I hadn't been notified of new comments on DW.
I look at the entry, and I see that the comments that have been added to the post from the dummy LJ are the comments from one of the missing entries of my actual LJ. (Compare the LJ entry with the DW entry.) Several other comments got transferred over to the other dummy-lj entries; and there were, in fact, 17 entries transferred from the dummy LJ remaining on my DW. (There was an 18th entry that I deleted before the import, which may be why the first entry of my real LJ wasn't affected.)
So, that looks like a bug, one which could be a problem if people start consolidating journals.
I'm leaving everything as it is for now. Support in getting those seventeen entries would be appreciated, but I figure I can copy over seventeen posts pretty easily. I can re-date and copy over the posts that had the misplaced comments (though one of the entries I deleted apparently had a misplaced comment), so very little of those are lost. But it's still a wacky bug.
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The other day, I was playing around with the importer to see how it handled inactive icons, so I imported from a small LJ account. Everything seemed fine.
Today, with the crossposter going into alpha, I decide to import my actual journal. When I do, I notice that a block of seventeen entries from the very beginning of my journal did not carry over. ("Nap Bites Man" to "This is getting personal." on my LJ archive.) I make a note to post a bug report about it.
Before I do, I decide to get rid of the information from the dummy imports. I clear out the extra icons, then I start deleting the entries. I delete 7 of them before I notice that the next one has comments. This is odd, because they didn't have comments in the original journal, and I hadn't been notified of new comments on DW.
I look at the entry, and I see that the comments that have been added to the post from the dummy LJ are the comments from one of the missing entries of my actual LJ. (Compare the LJ entry with the DW entry.) Several other comments got transferred over to the other dummy-lj entries; and there were, in fact, 17 entries transferred from the dummy LJ remaining on my DW. (There was an 18th entry that I deleted before the import, which may be why the first entry of my real LJ wasn't affected.)
So, that looks like a bug, one which could be a problem if people start consolidating journals.
I'm leaving everything as it is for now. Support in getting those seventeen entries would be appreciated, but I figure I can copy over seventeen posts pretty easily. I can re-date and copy over the posts that had the misplaced comments (though one of the entries I deleted apparently had a misplaced comment), so very little of those are lost. But it's still a wacky bug.