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foxfirefey (or possibly ![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
denise? i can't remember) in some previous post, it seems that reimporting my journal from LJ (I was trying to fetch new copies of a bunch of posts I edited to contain new image links) did in fact duplicate the bulk of my posts. Not all, and I can't figure out what the pattern was, and of course I hadn't set it to reimport comments since I thought the new post content would be copied over the existing posts, so now the new ones lack comments and I lose them if I delete the old posts which have the wrong image links (where those exist). I wondered if maybe it was because the importer considered those posts to not be literally the same ones and so imported fresh copies, but it duplicated a bunch of stuff that I didn't touch, too.
Great botheration!
(I'm wondering if the best solution might be to delete all my posts -- how, I'm not sure; I imagine LJ-sec won't work with DW -- and reimport afresh. Manual deletion of the duplicates is driving me batty.)
foxfirefey (or possibly denise? i can't remember) in some previous post, it seems that reimporting my journal from LJ (I was trying to fetch new copies of a bunch of posts I edited to contain new image links) did in fact duplicate the bulk of my posts. Not all, and I can't figure out what the pattern was, and of course I hadn't set it to reimport comments since I thought the new post content would be copied over the existing posts, so now the new ones lack comments and I lose them if I delete the old posts which have the wrong image links (where those exist). I wondered if maybe it was because the importer considered those posts to not be literally the same ones and so imported fresh copies, but it duplicated a bunch of stuff that I didn't touch, too.Great botheration!
(I'm wondering if the best solution might be to delete all my posts -- how, I'm not sure; I imagine LJ-sec won't work with DW -- and reimport afresh. Manual deletion of the duplicates is driving me batty.)
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Date: Jun. 2nd, 2010 04:41 am (UTC)From: