ljArchive, an open source LiveJournal archive tool's Journal

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Subject:	LJArchive Fix
Posted by:	bandicoot.
Time:	5:20 pm.

http://syredronning.livejournal.com/1530901.html has a link to a fixed version of LJArchive. I've run it and it now works fine, both syncing entires and comments.

If you download it, be sure to thank the journal owner

syredronning, who paid a coder to fix it.

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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Subject:	Anything?
Posted by:	mossytangle.
Time:	11:27 am.

Has there been any progress getting LJArchive running again?

Not having my LJ backed up is really freaking me out.

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Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Subject:	A plan?
Posted by:	sarahs_muse.
Time:	6:02 pm.

I'm getting this error:

ljArchive Error: System.Xml.XmlException: '<', hexadecimal value 0x3C, is an invalid attribute character. Line 108, position 99.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Int32 pos, String res, String[] args)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseAttributeValueSlow(Int32 curPos, Char quoteChar, NodeData attr)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseAttributes()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ExportCommentsMeta(OptionsRow or, ILJServer iLJ, SessionGenerateResponse sgr, Int32& serverMaxID, UserMapCollection umc)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()

I've thought about this... the data's there... it's just the XML parser throwing a tantrum.

Why not amend the data coming in, so that it's stored as text, rather than in an XML parsing object? Problem solved then!

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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Subject:	Problem's being worked on
Posted by:	schnee.
Time:	12:13 pm.

Just as a heads-up: coffeechica just said (in a comment on a post in lj_releases) that the ljArchive problems are being worked on:

We have an engineer assigned to this, and we think we know where it's going wrong (it only happens when comments are exported, so it's something in a comment). Yes, it's the same problem as what's affecting Wordpress and Dreamwidth import plugins. Unfortunately I don't have any information beyond that. I'm sorry, I wish I did. I use ljarchive too for my backups & searching and it's really frustrating not to have it.

So there's hope yet! :)

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Friday, September 16th, 2011

Subject:	My new Windows 7 computer won't run LJ Archive
Posted by:	fuzzbearmark.
Time:	4:53 pm.

I have tried three times to download LJ Archive for my new Windows 7 computer and it simply will not work - repeatedly get a Sync Error.

Sad - I used it ALL THE TIME on my previous computer. Any suggestions? Thanks

--Fuzz

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Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Subject:	Just my postmenopausal 2-1/2 cents worth of frustration
Posted by:	eppylover.
Time:	1:35 am.
Mood:	At the end of my dubious wits.

Yeah, it's been refusing for weeks to download the comments. Almost enough to make me avoid LiveJournal altogether. What's the point if they won't cooperate with the best LJ archiving utility ever created (even though it's unmanned/unsupported right now)?

Just from yesterday:

Error message #1 was ~

ljArchive Error: System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transp=
ort connection. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connec=
tion was forcibly closed by the remote host
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.BeginReceive(Byte[] buffer=2C Int32 offset=
=2C Int32 size=2C SocketFlags socketFlags=2C AsyncCallback callback=2C Obje=
ct state)
at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.BeginRead(Byte[] buffer=2C Int32 off=
set=2C Int32 size=2C AsyncCallback callback=2C Object state)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.BeginRead(Byte[] buffer=2C Int32 off=
set=2C Int32 size=2C AsyncCallback callback=2C Object state)
at System.Net.Connection.BeginRead(Byte[] buffer=2C Int32 offset=2C Int3=
2 size=2C AsyncCallback callback=2C Object state)
at System.Net.ConnectStream.InternalBeginRead(Int32 bytesToRead=2C Neste=
dSingleAsyncResult castedAsyncResult=2C Boolean fromCallback)
at System.Net.ConnectStream.BeginReadWithoutValidation(Byte[] buffer=2C =
Int32 offset=2C Int32 size=2C AsyncCallback callback=2C Object state)
at System.Net.ConnectStream.BeginRead(Byte[] buffer=2C Int32 offset=2C I=
nt32 size=2C AsyncCallback callback=2C Object state)
at System.Net.ConnectStream.Read(Byte[] buffer=2C Int32 offset=2C Int32 =
size)
at System.Xml.XmlEntityStream.Read(Byte[] buffer=2C Int32 offset=2C Int3=
2 count)
at System.Xml.XmlStreamReader.Read(Byte[] data=2C Int32 offset=2C Int32 =
length)
at System.Xml.XmlScanner.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlScanner.ScanComment()
at System.Xml.XmlScanner.ScanDtdContent()
at System.Xml.Schema.DtdParser.ScanDtdContent()
at System.Xml.Schema.DtdParser.ParseDtdContent()
at System.Xml.Schema.DtdParser.ParseDocTypeDecl()
at System.Xml.Schema.DtdParser.Parse()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseDtd(XmlScanner scanner)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseTag()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseRoot()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ExportCommentsMeta(OptionsRow or=2C ILJServe=
r iLJ=2C SessionGenerateResponse sgr=2C Int32& serverMaxID=2C UserMapCollec=
tion umc)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()

About an hour or so later, I tried again.
Error message #2 was ~

ljArchive Error: System.Xml.XmlException: The 'img' start tag on line '113' does not match the end tag of 'A'. Line 113, position 67.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseTag()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseBeginTagExpandCharEntities()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ExportCommentsMeta(OptionsRow or, ILJServer iLJ, SessionGenerateResponse sgr, Int32& serverMaxID, UserMapCollection umc)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()

Just FYI.
I REALLLLY think LiveJournal oughta get a clue and make their coding LJ Archive-friendly ~~ don't you?

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Monday, September 12th, 2011

Subject:	Error...
Posted by:	toxic_bitch.
Time:	8:30 pm.

I keep on getting errors while trying to sync...

ljArchive Error: System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.BeginReceive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.BeginRead(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.BeginRead(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Net.Connection.BeginRead(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Net.ConnectStream.InternalBeginRead(Int32 bytesToRead, NestedSingleAsyncResult castedAsyncResult, Boolean fromCallback)
at System.Net.ConnectStream.BeginReadWithoutValidation(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Net.ConnectStream.BeginRead(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Net.ConnectStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
at System.Xml.XmlStreamReader.Read(Byte[] data, Int32 offset, Int32 length)
at System.Xml.XmlScanner.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlScanner.ScanLiteral()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.SetLiteralValues(XmlAttributeTokenInfo fld)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.SetAttributeValues()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseElement()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ExportCommentsMeta(OptionsRow or, ILJServer iLJ, SessionGenerateResponse sgr, Int32& serverMaxID, UserMapCollection umc)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()

Any insight?

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Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Subject:	Image tag error?
Posted by:	kengr.
Time:	11:34 pm.

LJarchive started giving me this error a week or three back. At first I thought it might be because I'd flagged a comment as spam, but I'm still getting it, so that's unlikely...

ljArchive Error: System.Xml.XmlException: The 'img' start tag on line '105' does not match the end tag of 'A'. Line 105, position 67.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseTag()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseBeginTagExpandCharEntities()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ExportCommentsMeta(OptionsRow or, ILJServer iLJ, SessionGenerateResponse sgr, Int32& serverMaxID, UserMapCollection umc)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()

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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

Posted by:	rheasilvia.
Time:	10:16 pm.

Hi everyone,

LJarchive has always worked great for me - until several weeks ago. Now, I keep getting this error message when it tries to sync:

System.Xml.XmlException: 'lj' ist ein undeklarierter Namespace. Zeile 106, Position 146.
at System.Xml.XmlNSAttributeTokenInfo.FixNames()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseElement()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ExportCommentsMeta(OptionsRow or, ILJServer iLJ, SessionGenerateResponse sgr, Int32& serverMaxID, UserMapCollection umc)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()

"ist ein undeklarierter Namespace. Zeile 106, Position 146" means
"is an undeclared namespace. Line 106, position 146"

Sometimes it crashes my Firefox, too. :-/

Does anyone have an idea what the prolem could be? I haven't changed anything about my system that I know of...

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Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Subject:	How come I can sync other accounts but not this one?
Posted by:	chaosphaere.
Time:	11:49 pm.

I maintain several accounts and communities. I am able to sync *all* of them... except for *this* one.

What is the problem?

This is my largest account - 10 years worth of material. I'd like to be able to back it up, because I plan to delete my account.

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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Subject:	synch stopped working
Posted by:	alobar.
Time:	5:54 am.

ljArchive worked fine for me up until April 8. Now it refuses to work. No idea if the problem arose because of a Windows update, or because LJ's problems with denial of service attacks. I can post to my LJ just fine. I can read my LJ just fine.

=======================================

ljArchive Error: EF.ljArchive.Engine.ExpectedSyncException: An expected exception occurred: ServerNotResponding ---> CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcIllFormedXmlException: Response from server does not contain valid XML. ---> System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out.
   at System.Net.ConnectStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)
   at System.IO.StreamReader.ReadBuffer(Char[] userBuffer, Int32 userOffset, Int32 desiredChars, Boolean& readToUserBuffer)
   at System.IO.StreamReader.Read(Char[] buffer, Int32 index, Int32 count)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ReadData()
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseQName(Boolean isQName, Int32 startOffset, Int32& colonPos)
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement()
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()
   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)
   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)
   at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
   at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(TextReader txtReader)
   at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcSerializer.DeserializeResponse(TextReader trdr, Type returnType)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcSerializer.DeserializeResponse(TextReader trdr, Type returnType)
   at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcSerializer.DeserializeResponse(Stream stm, Type returnType)
   at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcClientProtocol.ReadResponse(XmlRpcRequest req, WebResponse webResp, Stream respStm, Type returnType)
   at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcClientProtocol.Invoke(Object clientObj, String methodName, Object[] parameters)
   at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcClientProtocol.Invoke(String MethodName, Object[] Parameters)
   at XmlRpcProxy8185054d-b214-401b-b847-ac4a8a2335b4.Login(LoginParams )
   at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.Login(OptionsRow or, ILJServer iLJ, LoginResponse& lr, String& communityPicURL)
   at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Subject:	forget about it...
Posted by:	thnidu.
Time:	3:57 pm.

ljArchive is abandonware. The author's Projects page says under "Older projects":

I wrote these a long time ago, and though they might still be useful, I no longer maintain them.
...
ljArchive (2004)
ljArchive is a tool for downloading, browsing, and analyzing journal entries and comments from LiveJournal (or LiveJournal clones).

The Sourceforge page for it says:

ljArchive at sourceforget.net
Not much to see here yet. The sourceforge project page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/ and the original developer's site is at http://www.fawx.com/ljArchive/.
The latest release is 0.9.5, released on July 27th, 2005.

That typo (if it is one) is appropriate, don't you think?

Anybody know of a replacement?

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Subject:	Export to XML
Posted by:	javax_slr.
Time:	3:26 pm.

Hi, I receive following exception during export to XML:

( ... )

is there any way to solve this?

Thank you!

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Monday, February 7th, 2011

Subject:	jarchive doesn't import my youtube videos,
Posted by:	jolies_fanclub.
Time:	3:10 pm.

although all media in the comments is properly in.

Wht's wrong that I do?
How can I help my youtube videos get packed?

Thanks.

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Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Subject:	Deleting Old Entries
Posted by:	ravendon.
Time:	4:26 am.

LJ Archive doesn't allow you to delete old entries. Why is this important?
I backup a community. Recently I got some Russian spammers embedding images and links into their entries. I got their accounts banned as spammers.

Then I synched LJ Archive.
But, the spam is still present.

The only option is now to delete my backup of my LJ community and have it create a new backup.

This is a big flaw in the design.

I just deleted my backup, then redid the download.

It added even more spam from earlier. It remembers spam forever. wtf

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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Subject:	Error when exporting
Posted by:	jesse_dylan.
Time:	6:31 pm.

Hey guys, I'm new to this great program and hoping someone can help me.

My main wish is to export my journal into a format that I can save and archive as a hard copy (well, you know, a "hard" computer copy at any rate) and that will be readable on my Kindle 3. So, I was figuring getting it in HTML (one big file or one file for each year if necessary) and then converting it for Kindle.

Anyway, when I'm exporting, I get an error near the middle of the year 2004 (fairly near the beginning) that says "length cannot be less than zero". So it stops exporting at that point.

Any hints?

Thanks very much,
Jesse

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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Subject:	Archiciving a community?
Posted by:	ffutures.
Time:	11:19 am.

I'm a bit confused by the procedure for archiving a community in addition to my own livejournal. I moderate it as

ffutures, do I just start again and enter my name and password but click the "archive a community" button, and it sets up a separate archive, or is it more complicated than that?

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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Subject:	Plug-in issue?
Posted by:	grandiva1968.
Time:	4:33 am.

I haven't been using the plug-ins much recently, using 0.9.7 principally for offline archiving, but today I tried to fire up the Regressive Imagery tool, and the plug-in keeps returning "Error contacting server" dialog and not loading anything. Is this plug-in still functional or has something changed with server access for purposes of the requisite data mining?

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Monday, December 6th, 2010

Subject:	Net Framework Version?
Posted by:	ffutures.
Time:	11:54 pm.

I wanted to install ljarchive on a different PC (I've been using it on my old one without problems) and got a message that I needed .NET Framework to run it.

So I installed the latest version of net framework and installed it, rebooted, etc., but it still says that it is "unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application."

The stuff I've installed is .NET Framework 4 Extended and Microsoft Net Framework 4 Client Profile

Is this the wrong version or something? My old PC had Net Framework 2, I think. Both PCs run XP SP3.

While I'm here, I'd like to say that I really like this program - thanks to all the developers etc.

later - never mind, I pulled Net Framework 4 and installed version 2 and it now works fine.

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Monday, November 15th, 2010

Subject:	Error Message
Posted by:	caffeinepuppet.
Time:	1:33 pm.

Hi I wondering if someone could provide some help; I've been receiving the following error message consistently for ljarchive.

ljArchive Error: System.Xml.XmlException: This is an unexpected token. The expected token is 'EndElement'. Line 3974, position 7.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.XmlCommentReader.Read()
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ExportCommentsBody(OptionsRow or, ILJServer iLJ, SessionGenerateResponse sgr, Int32 serverMaxID, Int32 localMaxID, CommentCollection cc)
at EF.ljArchive.Engine.Sync.ThreadStart()

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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