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How to import your blog from AOL Journals to Blogger.

Hi, J-Land members. Good news for you today - instead of downloading your journals using FTP, a traditional web browser, WGet or Backstreet Browser (methods that all have their drawbacks) as of this morning you can now export (that is, "transfer") your journal directly to Blogger by following the simple steps on this Blogger Help page. If you want to then export your blog to Wordpress, just follow these instructions. As I find more platforms you can export your new Blogger blog to, I will add more links to this post.

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Posted on Oct. 8th, 2008 at 03:43 pm | | Leave a Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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(Anonymous)

I just did it and it went like clockwork!!!!!! I'm so happy!
Traci
Posted on Oct. 8th, 2008 09:06 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]anti_aol

Glad to hear it, Tracy. Best of luck to all of you with the migration.
Posted on Oct. 9th, 2008 12:20 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

Thanks for the info and I will try backstreet. One thing AOL and Blogger apparently did not consider was the size of some journals. I can not get mine to transfer and I've tried 100s of times. Done all the expected things clearing cache, history, outside browser, you name. I've been told for 3 days that AOL and blogger have tried repeatedly and they can't get it to go either. As for blogger help all I get is the message board that has more issues and questions then answers. Sad if you ask me, but hey who asked.
d
Nightmaremom@aol.com
Posted on Oct. 12th, 2008 02:04 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]marahmarie

The only thing I can tell you is to try to contact Support:

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=88294

Keep on contacting them until they help you. (With Google, from my personal experience, I can tell you that it is often very hard to get anyone to answer you, so keep at it - a squeaky wheel does get oiled.)

It would be nice if Google would update the Help Page to reflect that according to the AOL-Import board some of you are having serious unaddressed issues and to tell you that the developers are working on answers and will update the FAQ again to give you those answers as soon as possible.

No one is even responding to messages left on the AOL-Import board? I'm shocked, simply shocked, that they would abandon AOL's incoming users this way.

I'll log in to the board and link to this thread on there; maybe it will wake someone up.
Posted on Oct. 13th, 2008 02:01 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

Thanks for the help... and I did see you posted my comment over at the help message board. Unfortunately no one answered you or my multiple requests. I might just be looking for another blog site as neither AOL or blogger want to give answers. I suppose they think we will all just go away.
d
Posted on Oct. 17th, 2008 01:35 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]anti_aol

I just put another request in on the same thread in response to Blogger Employee. We'll see how it goes.
Posted on Oct. 17th, 2008 02:36 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

Yes I saw that, thank you. I got the boiler plate answer, 'we're working on it' prior to your message but not one answer to any questions.... GRRRRR
Posted on Oct. 17th, 2008 11:01 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

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