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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2022-03-13 09:00 pm

Importer status

At this point, imports are running almost as soon as you submit them, and we've gotten through more or less the entire backlog (barring a few large community imports that need some extra babysitting). We've contacted several people whose imports have been failing to let them know what the problem was, and how they can fix it. If we didn't contact you, but you've tried importing your journal or community and gotten failures more than 10 times since 10 Mar, either let us know here (with the account name and any error messages you've gotten) or by email at support@dreamwidth.org and we'll look into it further!
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[personal profile] mybeautifulwars 2022-03-14 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
You guys rock! You do so much to keep us all together <3
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[personal profile] muccamukk 2022-03-14 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much for all your work on this! You are all amazing!
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[personal profile] ishte 2022-03-14 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
On a whim, after trying for days and giving up for days, I decided to try one more time, and voila! My import happened. JUST LIKE THAT. I couldn't believe it. I had just about written off any chance of getting my entries from LJ to import and being able to read them in anything other than the messy spreadsheet/xml format that I had been able to download myself. 17 years, all the way back to my very first in 2003 post including comments. I'm impressed how seamless it looks.

So THANK YOU for everything you've done to rescue my LiveJournal from the Oligarchy. Maybe nothing bad will happen to it, but I just can't stand the idea of keeping a paid account there any more.

Now I just have to figure out how to get my CSS to work here, as the style it's built on doesn't seem to be available and I have been searching for stylesheet templates so I can find one that will do what I want. (Then all I have to do is plug in my graphic paths.)
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[personal profile] 4ofswords 2022-03-14 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for these updates. I was about to just give up on importing comments but I tried again today and third time was the charm!
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[personal profile] tyger 2022-03-14 02:21 am (UTC)(link)

FINALLY went and made a backup account for my old LJ, which I've been meaning to do for years. Had to do some shenanigans on the LJ side because apparently they make you change passwords now if you haven't logged in for uh... almost a decade actually... but other than that it worked super well! :D The only thing I was hoping for but yez didn't get was my inactive icons, which I'm guessing you just simply CAN'T get, which is totally fair!

Anyway, bought a paid account for said backup account even though I won't actually use it as anything but a backup, as a thank you as much as anything! :D Thanks for keeping the importer working so well!!! :D :D :D

[personal profile] sparky955 2022-03-14 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Thank all of you for creating a wonderful site !!!
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[personal profile] 20_00 2022-03-14 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Hello!
I'm trying to import a community from https://potsreotizm-new.livejournal.com/ to https://potsreotizm-new.dreamwidth.org/ with a special technical account under my control -- NyldraethShade.

Posts: successful!
Comments: failure. Error fetching metadata.
In the last few days, all of the several attempts have been unsuccessful. Only the posts.

I do not insist, but if you can help, it would be very good. Thank you!
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[personal profile] beffeysue 2022-03-14 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything!!! 💖
Beth
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[personal profile] the_beasts 2022-03-14 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
thankyou so so much everyone for all your hard work!

we appreciate you hugely. <3
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[personal profile] becofoz 2022-03-14 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
I've been trying to import my comments for the past week at least two or three times a day (leaving a gap between each import) and I am having no success. Friends have commented saying that there's have finally been successful but I'm just having no luck.

This was the latest error message - Failure running job: Lost connection to MySQL server during query at /dw/cgi-bin/DW/Worker/ContentImporter/Local/Comments.pm line 173.
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[personal profile] weatheringtea 2022-03-14 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so so much for everything you've been doing to get through this arduous process!!
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[personal profile] skaneverdies 2022-03-14 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
BIG thank you for making this all happen. A friend just tipped me off to the platform, so I didn't experience any of these issues. Signed up, backed up, and kicked back. Was done in less than 10 minutes. Thanks again.
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[personal profile] arlenerios 2022-03-14 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I was just able to import my entire LJ and I was O_O that it happened to quickly. Thank you so much! Gracias!
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[personal profile] badly_knitted 2022-03-14 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I started importing from https://badly-knitted.livejournal.com/ to https://bk-forever.dreamwidth.org/ (which isn't my main journal but one I set up a few years ago specifically as a backup for my LJ) getting on for two days ago now and it still says Journal comments - Waiting for entries to finish and
Journal entries - Waiting for tags and groups to finish. Should I just keep waiting or start again?
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[personal profile] elena_paglia 2022-03-14 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
A heartfelt thanks from a newcomer (today!) From LJ: entries and comments imported in the blink of an eye!