Importing Diary-X entries?

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  anxious · Member · Mar 15, 2007 at 11:37 am

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  I know you can import entries from other Blog services. Luckily, I saved my entries from Diary-X before it died and I would really like to import them onto WordPress. But I have no idea how.

  Help?

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  drmike · Member · Mar 15, 2007 at 12:34 pm

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  What format did you save them in?

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  suspiriosae · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 4:32 pm

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  I have this same question. And I actually can’t tell what format they’re saved it – it was the automatic back-up/download function provided by diary-x. The file type simply shows up as “File” and they open as plain text – every time I open one, I have to tell my computer what program to use to open it.

  I would really like to find a way to import these, since I have hundreds of entries and I would really like to avoid doing them all manually.

  Thanks!

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  judyb12 · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 4:37 pm

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  when you open them as plain text, do the files only contain your content (either in plain old plain text or with HTML markup tags)?

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  suspiriosae · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 5:15 pm

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  It’s content only, with the original diary-x tagging info at the end of it. All in plain text.

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  wank · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 7:31 pm

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  When I moved from diary-x to my own wordpress install a few years back I ended up putting the entries into MT format, saving it as a .txt file, then importing it as if it were a Movable Type export. I only had about forty entries so it wasn’t that painful. WP has its own import/export format now, but as far as I know the specs aren’t published anywhere.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 11:23 pm

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  The old Diary-X stuff I have is just text if that helps.