Instructions for downloading your files from AOL Hometown are contained in this entry on the AOL People Connection blog. This only works for US-based accounts.
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Are tey getting rid of our e-mail accounts and AIM accounts aso?
If you got to the home page of the people connection blog and scroll down, there are several different information posts aimed at different international users. -Paul
i never in my life felt so confused with this, pharm, with head injury how in the world am i suspose to understand this, my brain does not work well and well goodenss my journal is my life and evdeince. shoosh on me, i would hate to lose the whole darn thing sos
Are you saying we have to open an account with a shareware place and download all our journals ourselves? AOL can't transfer our files for us????
I'm lost at this. Keep in mind the tech terminology not everyone understands.
Can someone help me transfer my files. I already have an account with Blogger.com from a long time ago. I already changed the name of the blogs there by adding a name before or after the Journals I already have.
I'm SO CONFUSED. HELP.
Rose Roses are read Jouranl and The Lantern Journal
The journals can be transferred through Blogger - procedure will be announced in the next few days. To store your files from Hometown, you can use Photobucket (for images). The FTP solution is very convoluted, complicated and not for the non-techy person. Have posted a SIMPLE procedure a few entries back.
I didn't think I was stupid until I started reading about this whole AOhelL journal mess. First, is AOhelL transferring ALL of our journals, including every post and comment from the very beginning of our journals or not?
I am unclear about this because some places it says that AOhelL is transferring all of my journals, and then I read that I need to copy and paste all of my entries to a new blog site.
I've got several AOhelL journals and some go back with entries almost every day for a few years. And I'm supposed to copy and paste everyting by WHEN?!
What the heck?
And is my new journal at this blogger place going to look like it does now? Or is it going to be all boxy and generic looking and hard to figure out. Grrrrrr at AOhelL!
AOL won't transfer your journal, you've got to take action yourself. You will be notified when that can be done. All AOL Journals will be deleted by November 1st.
The journal will look different at Blogger, although you can tweak it.
I have put a few more entries on Magic Smoke which are useful.
I came to the realization back when the ads first appeared on our blogs that our voices were not important, that we were no longer the customer. We were merely 'hits' to be sold to advertisers. With the demise of 3 of the only 4 services I use on AOL, as of Nov. 1 I shall have no reason to continue providing hits to temp prospective advertisers. Pity. I shall miss those adorable pop-ups. I think we all saw this coming. It was just a matter of time. I'm not mad or upset. But inconvenienced? ... you betcha! I have several journals, two are over 4 years old. One has 1473 entries. All of my blogs are very graphic intensive. My photo blog has 274 entries. The earlier graphics are stored on ftp. The newer ones on YGP and Hometown. I'm assuming that when I migrate my journals that my pictures and animations will not show up being as they are linked to files stored on AOL, which will be eliminated on the 1st. That means transferring the pictures and animations, then going into each entry on the new blog and editing each one. Yay! Can't wait to start on that little project. 30 days? Make that 25 since the migration isn't available til the 7th (if it works) Sure, I can do it, no problem! Seriously, this is just the voice of one little hit, but what are the chances of AOL leaving our journals and files up for a little longer, without the ability to add to them of course? The migration plan is awesome, but there is still so much to do and they really haven't given us reasonable time to take care of what needs to be done.
ok I click on the link! it takes me to another blog... I go to keywords FTP I get this message that says FTP is going away... @@ I click on go to FTP and then I do the next step and get a gateway timed out error message what the ???????!
This is really annoying why the heck is AOL doing this???????????????
Hey I wonder what AOL's Kick back was for referring us all to Blogger. Considering it's not an AOL based system, I'd say you wouldn't advertise for free.
"Also, the migration will be opened up to Journals users starting on or after Oct. 7th" If I'm not mistaken it's 7th October today, and still no word of how to migrate our journals in to Blogger .... what a croc of rubbish AOL is turning in to ...
I think we need to be patient. AOL has said that the migration will be in place "on or after" October 7th so let's not lose sleep over the fact that it's October 8th. However, Krish, can you please give us an update? In the absence of news, it's obvious that folks are starting to get upset and you might want to manage it before it starts to leak more publicly. For example, it would be good if you could at least verify that the migration plan is indeed underway and give an update on the timetable. Best, Marty
My journal is over five years old. I am in tears at the thought of losing it, and backing it manually is exhausting and not going to work. Are all of our photo albums going to be migrated as well? Should I try to back up all the photo albums on my blog? I am not very computer competent and I am so confused. I couldn't even manage to back up my blog from my FTP space,, since it only lists my audio entries. Is there another way to do this? Have they released the migration tool yet?
Yes, keeping us informed would be 'nice' afterall if it wasn't for us paying for aol there would be no aol. Just a shame we have to rely on once a week journal postings to keep us informed and that aol do not repsect its customers enough to keep them informed in a more professional manner.
Hey I wonder what AOL's Kick back was for referring us all to Blogger. Considering it's not an AOL based system, I'd say you wouldn't advertise for free.
23 comments:
Are tey getting rid of our e-mail accounts and AIM accounts aso?
If you got to the home page of the people connection blog and scroll down, there are several different information posts aimed at different international users.
-Paul
i never in my life felt so confused with this, pharm, with head injury how in the world am i suspose to understand this, my brain does not work well and well goodenss my journal is my life and evdeince. shoosh on me, i would hate to lose the whole darn thing sos
Please forgive my lack of tech knowledge.
Are you saying we have to open an account with a shareware place and download all our journals ourselves? AOL can't transfer our files for us????
I'm lost at this. Keep in mind the tech terminology not everyone understands.
Can someone help me transfer my files. I already have an account with Blogger.com from a long time ago. I already changed the name of the blogs there by adding a name before or after the Journals I already have.
I'm SO CONFUSED. HELP.
Rose Roses are read Jouranl and The Lantern Journal
The journals can be transferred through Blogger - procedure will be announced in the next few days. To store your files from Hometown, you can use Photobucket (for images). The FTP solution is very convoluted, complicated and not for the non-techy person. Have posted a SIMPLE procedure a few entries back.
What about AOL Pictures? How do we get those saved?
I didn't think I was stupid until I started reading about this whole AOhelL journal mess. First, is AOhelL transferring ALL of our journals, including every post and comment from the very beginning of our journals or not?
I am unclear about this because some places it says that AOhelL is transferring all of my journals, and then I read that I need to copy and paste all of my entries to a new blog site.
I've got several AOhelL journals and some go back with entries almost every day for a few years. And I'm supposed to copy and paste everyting by WHEN?!
What the heck?
And is my new journal at this blogger place going to look like it does now? Or is it going to be all boxy and generic looking and hard to figure out. Grrrrrr at AOhelL!
AOL won't transfer your journal, you've got to take action yourself. You will be notified when that can be done.
All AOL Journals will be deleted by November 1st.
The journal will look different at Blogger, although you can tweak it.
I have put a few more entries on Magic Smoke which are useful.
I came to the realization back when the ads first appeared on our blogs that our voices were not important, that we were no longer the customer. We were merely 'hits' to be sold to advertisers. With the demise of 3 of the only 4 services I use on AOL, as of Nov. 1 I shall have no reason to continue providing hits to temp prospective advertisers. Pity. I shall miss those adorable pop-ups.
I think we all saw this coming. It was just a matter of time. I'm not mad or upset.
But inconvenienced? ... you betcha! I have several journals, two are over 4 years old. One has 1473 entries. All of my blogs are very graphic intensive. My photo blog has 274 entries. The earlier graphics are stored on ftp. The newer ones on YGP and Hometown. I'm assuming that when I migrate my journals that my pictures and animations will not show up being as they are linked to files stored on AOL, which will be eliminated on the 1st. That means transferring the pictures and animations, then going into each entry on the new blog and editing each one. Yay! Can't wait to start on that little project. 30 days? Make that 25 since the migration isn't available til the 7th (if it works) Sure, I can do it, no problem!
Seriously, this is just the voice of one little hit, but what are the chances of AOL leaving our journals and files up for a little longer, without the ability to add to them of course? The migration plan is awesome, but there is still so much to do and they really haven't given us reasonable time to take care of what needs to be done.
h
Dirk,
I'm working to have the journals of the deceased transferred to Blogger.
Will this migration to Blogger also be working with AOL-Blogs in Germany??
ok I click on the link! it takes me to another blog... I go to keywords FTP I get this message that says FTP is going away... @@ I click on go to FTP and then I do the next step and get a gateway timed out error message what the ???????!
This is really annoying why the heck is AOL doing this???????????????
I am making a comment to see if I still can.
Krissy
okay, trying something again.
Hey I wonder what AOL's Kick back was for referring us all to Blogger. Considering it's not an AOL based system, I'd say you wouldn't advertise for free.
*M*
I'm looking for a way to archive my journals to my hard drive. I have one public and one private journal. Do you know of a method to this that works?
"Also, the migration will be opened up to Journals users starting on or after Oct. 7th"
If I'm not mistaken it's 7th October today, and still no word of how to migrate our journals in to Blogger ....
what a croc of rubbish AOL is turning in to ...
I think we need to be patient. AOL has said that the migration will be in place "on or after" October 7th so let's not lose sleep over the fact that it's October 8th. However, Krish, can you please give us an update? In the absence of news, it's obvious that folks are starting to get upset and you might want to manage it before it starts to leak more publicly. For example, it would be good if you could at least verify that the migration plan is indeed underway and give an update on the timetable.
Best,
Marty
My journal is over five years old. I am in tears at the thought of losing it, and backing it manually is exhausting and not going to work. Are all of our photo albums going to be migrated as well? Should I try to back up all the photo albums on my blog? I am not very computer competent and I am so confused. I couldn't even manage to back up my blog from my FTP space,, since it only lists my audio entries. Is there another way to do this? Have they released the migration tool yet?
Yes, keeping us informed would be 'nice' afterall if it wasn't for us paying for aol there would be no aol. Just a shame we have to rely on once a week journal postings to keep us informed and that aol do not repsect its customers enough to keep them informed in a more professional manner.
and I do have to add that I don't think aol deserve our patience after the way this has all been so insensitively handled.
Once again:
Hey I wonder what AOL's Kick back was for referring us all to Blogger. Considering it's not an AOL based system, I'd say you wouldn't advertise for free.
*M*
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