I don't have the spare tuits to try this right now (possibly this weekend),
but I just came across this tool:
http://antennapedia.livejournal.com/266462.html which claims to be a full
migrate tool for LJ-style sites.

Quoting the author:

   - Archives entries, comments, and user pics locally.
   - Can optionally generate simple html versions of entries with comments
   and a userpic.
   - Can optionally migrate from one LJ-style server to another. E.g., from
   LiveJournal to InsaneJournal. Post metadata (user pic keywords, mood icon,
   tags, music, location) is preserved when the destination supports them.
   Privacy info is preserved: if a post is private or flocked in the source, it
   will be private or flocked at the destination. Custom filters aren't moved,
   though.
   - Archives communities. Can also migrate them. See README.
   - Cannot migrate comments or memories; cannot archive community comments.
   These limitations are LJ limitations, alas.

Last updated Aug 08. Python code.
-D


On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Yeah, posts and comments for the vast majority of people I know.  Nobody
> > is going to be that upset about having to re-upload a hundred (or so)
> > icons, but losing years of interactions between yourself and your
> > readers would be Very Bad.
>
> 95% of *your* content.
>
> At this point, the legal and technical hurdles around importing *other
> people's* content (i.e. comments) are going to make doing comments
> really difficult and potentially impossible.  However, I'm all for
> downloading comment data during the import process and storing it
> locally on the DW servers so that, if we do solve the problems about
> hosting it, we can retroactively do so.
>
> Another potential solution, make the comments 'private', only the
> journal owner can see them.  That way we have the record, and the
> person who owns the journal can see it, but we're not publishing it.
>
> Either way, for now, plan on storing the data to DW in some way that
> we can use, but don't plan on it being business-as-usual for them.
>
>
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