Is There Anything Else I Need to Do Before My LiveJournal Account Expires?

[rusty_halo]

My LiveJournal account expires in about a week, at which point I’ll switch to a basic account. I:

* Moved all my memories to del.icio.us.

* Am moving all my scrapbook photos to my own site as we speak (using the NextGen Gallery Plug-In; it’s lovely).

* Have tagged all my entries, and plan to copy my archives to InsaneJournal asap.

* Am satisfied with the state of my layout (since I won’t be able to edit it again).

* Am emotionally preparing myself to cope with only six icons (yet another reason to read me on my own blog or InsaneJournal where I have–at last count–149 icons).

* Am only cross-posting about a third of my entries to LJ anyway.

* Moved all my RSS feeds to Google Reader, so I won’t need to worry about adding new feeds to LJ.

* What happens to my custom friends groups? I only use them for posting; do those posts revert to general friends-only or to private?

Is there anything I’m forgetting?

Originally published at rusty-halo.com. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

How are you getting your scrapbook photos off LJ? I have pictures that I've only got on LJ, no copies on my HD, and I would like to save copies elsewhere as a backup but I don't know any way to get them downloaded except saving each one individually.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I already had backups saved. It's definitely a good idea, just in case.

I know there are programs that integrate your computer to your scrapbook account, so you can upload a folder in a couple of clicks. I don't know if they work in reverse, though.

Your best bet is probably a Firefox plugin. I've seen one that will save an entire webpage, including all the HTML files and selected file types (so you could set it to save all image files). You can set the number of levels it crawls though, so theoretically you could set the root directory as "pics.livejournal.com/peasant_" and it would save everything. Then if you went to the local directory where it had been saved, all your image files should be there. (I'm pretty sure the extension is ScrapBook. Heh.)

I've never tried it for this, obviously, but it might work. If not, you could play around with different Firefox plugins and you'll probably figure something out....

[http://users.livejournal.com/peasant_/]

Oh bother, I thought you knew some nifty new method. Doing something with a Firefox plugin is the best idea I've been able to come up with myself and it definitely doesn't count as convenient.

Oh well, reason 3,245 why I'm not leaving LJ any time soon.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Well, if ScrapBook works, it's very easy.

[abbylee]

There's a perl script. Remind me, okay?