Journal Import Speed

[batrachian]

How long does a journal import generally take? My LJ import's been running for roughly two hours at this point, and I'm not sure how to judge whether it's working as expected (intended is another story altogether).

For reference, my LJ's had fairly regular posts for roughly five years, so there is a lot to move. Just looking for a reassurance (or confirmation of broken-ness, either way.)

EDIT: Eight hours later, entry import is complete. It's still chugging on comments. :)

When Importing is a bad decision

[forensics]

I imported all my old LJ entries, and now I think I made the wrong decision. Is there any way to delete more than one entry at a time, or am I stuck deleting each one individually? I have several years of regular posting, so that would be a pain.

Quick-and-dirty hack for changing colors in Negatives

[holyschist]

I posted a very quick-and-dirty tutorial for changing the colors in Negatives, if you find them painful:

http://holyschist.dreamwidth.org/2291.html

It's not a permanent or ideal fix, but it's pretty easy to implement and should hold you over until the official options are all active.

Hope it's helpful and reasonably clear--I'll try to rewrite it in the next few days, since apparently not everyone gets the same starting point I did.

Is it possible (or will be) to redo an import?

[sqbr]

I just imported my lj to see how it would work (as described on the faq), and of course since it was from a basic account all my icons are wrong. Also I'm probably not going to bother double posting, but would like the option to use this account (or possibly a new one I set up specifically as a backup) to mirror my lj periodically.

So, is it possible to redo an import? If so will it fix all the broken icons?

The icons thing doesn't bother me that much, people can always look up the original lj article if it's very confusing, but if you can't (and won't be able to) repeatedly update an import that will change the way I decide to divide myself between the two journalling services.

Also, if I get a paid account, do all my icons right, import my lj, and then switch to an unpaid account, will all the extra icons vanish?

(I hope this is clear, I am feeling pretty crappy today)

viewing comment pages in site scheme

[sixbeforelunch]

Is there a way to set DW so that comment pages show in the site scheme and not in my journal's style? I'm pretty sure I've seen it on a few journals, but I can't for the life of me find it in either customize style or manage account.

Re: Importing from Livejournal

[cloverdew]

I think I followed all the instructions correctly, as my tags, etc. were imported according to the message in my DW inbox. However, when I look at the Import Status in the Import Helper, I get this:

lj_comments init as of Never created 1 second ago priority 1239750585
lj_entries init as of Never created 1 second ago priority 1239750585

Does that mean it's working? Forgive me if this is a stupid question, it just wasn't obvious to me and I"m not sure if there's something I missed.

Help with Generator Style

[kazbaby]

I've been trying to set up a community with the Generator style and when I compile it's coming up with this error for: base_url() + "/\">";
This is the error I'm getting:

Compile error: line 873, column 1: Unknown function base_url()

I've tried searching through how_to over on LJ as well as googling and I haven't been able to come with anything that'll work. It's driving me absolutely bonkers so any help would be great!

eta: Fixed! There was an extra quotation mark in the sucker.

Helpful titles

[liv]

Greetings, people. I'm one of the community administrators here, but this isn't a pronouncement from On High, just a gentle suggestion. Please could you consider giving your posts a meaningful title, and not just "question" or "newbie needs help"? It'll make the community much more useful for others to browse later on. Of course we'll try to organize everything with tags, but titles would be great too!