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[sophiaserpentia]

NOW I'm missing entries and comments, discussions that took place on my journal recently that were important to me. This is, to me, far worse than the loss of my style info.

Notably, the discussion where several of you told me where to find archive tools is missing. That entry and all of the discussion is gone. I will have to beg you to please tell me again where to find those tools.

I'm afraid to look through my memories to see how many of my old entries might be mising.

LJ is offering people on Chef-sub-8 a month of free time. Big whoop -- what good is free paid time, when there's no guarantee that data will be retained?

LJ gets no more of my money, until I see sustained proof that stability issues like this have been fixed.

Edit. The "lost entry restoration tool" says this: "It seems that all of your entries are in order. If you are experiencing any difficulties with your account, please visit our support center."

No, they most certainly are NOT in order. This is totally unacceptable.

Edit. The LJ Backup tool does not work on this computer, for some reason. I suppose I'll try rebooting and seeing if that works.

I'd wait until tomorrow, because I'm literally sickened over my frustration with this, but I should try to do the backup while my entries are still here.

Comments

[adriang.livejournal.com]

The also offered some procedure for recovering lost entries. I think I saw it in lj-mainetance. Don't give up, yet.

Adrian

[keshara.livejournal.com]

I wasn't one of the original posters, but these may interest you: LiveJournal Backup Toolkit which can convert your entries to several other blog formats, LJBook which will export your journal to PDF, including the comments and ALJ which will download entries and comments to plain text files. This tool will allegedly restore lost entries. Good luck!

[ahladita.livejournal.com]

The same has been happening to myself and friends of mine, and I'm considering exporting my entries to movabletype and putting up a new blog on a personal domain.

[iq2hi4uok.livejournal.com]

Did any of the entries you lost have comments? If so, you *might* be able to reconstruct some from the comment notification emails? (If you have them turned on, that is.)

Even if you don't have it turned on, it's possible that some of the people who commented may have had the option turned on to have their own comments emailed to them. Might be worth asking.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

I haven't had problems with lost entries ... but increasingly I'm seeing a tendency to ignore the right to privacy of LJ users if the results would be "cool."

I'm getting heartily sick of seeing friends-only entries pop up unprotected in the "20 Most Recent Posts" list and the "Pictures Recently Posted to LJ" sites. I'm starting to wonder if anything I post here is secure or safe in any way.

I may need to move my blog to another provider, or to a private server. Really, LJ doesn't save me THAT much time over templated HTML ...