liv: Stylised sheep with blue, purple, pink horizontal stripes, and teacup brand, dreams of Dreamwidth (sheeeep)
Liv ([personal profile] liv) wrote in [community profile] getting_started 2010-09-07 12:04 pm (UTC)

I had no problems getting it to work; all I did was:
  • File > New Archive
  • Type in my username (liv) and password.
  • Tick the "Alternate Server" box and typed http://www.dreamwidth.org
  • Click "finish".
    Then I used Tools > Sync with absolutely no problems; I've set it to update automatically when I run the program.

    Data: I didn't import my LJ journal, so this was a clean journal on DW. My journal is not and never has been huge (I had about a thousand entries from 6 years of LJ, about a fifth of that in the year and a half I've been using DW). I rarely use any special characters or font encodings, Latin-extended covers nearly everything I need to type. My username doesn't have any underscores or punctuation in it. I am using WinXP on a Toshiba laptop, and I connect to the internet via domestic wireless with no proxies or firewalls.

    I know some people have had real problems, particularly with very large imported journals or ones that use a mix of character sets. But it's hard to pinpoint exactly why it works for some and not others.

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