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.

Comments

[wychwood]

Apparently you can ask to have your journal contents wiped; mark says it would be best to open a support request. But be aware that, to quote him, "the process wipes out everything.. all entries, comments, bio, etc".

[forensics]

Excellent.

[tea]

This won't help you, I'm afraid, but a suggestion for anyone apprehensive about whether or not they want to import old entries: I wanted the backup but for them not to be public, so before importing I set my maximum security setting to "private", so the importer imported everything to that setting. Visible to me as a back-up, but not to anyone else!

It's a good compromise - I was definitely worried about doing it wrong and ending up with hundreds of entries I didn't want here.

[forensics]

Most of my old entries were private, so that did work out well. :D

[tea]

Could have been worse, then! :)

[forensics]

Thankfully yes. ;)

[stepps]

I've used LJ-Sec previously to import my LJ posts to IJ, but the original use for the program is to mass edit post settings, eg. making public posts private, or filtered, or deleting multiple posts. I used it on LJ to make older posts private, and it worked fine (with just a bit of scrolling down the list of posts and selecting the ones to edit). I can't imagine it not working for DW, though I haven't tried it.

[quivo]

Bear in mind that you can also mass edit the privacy of your entries if you've 'upgraded' to a paid account, here: http://www.dreamwidth.org/editprivacy.bml