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1 | pat

May 3rd, 2002 at 6:28 am

hee. glad i could help.

2 | Jennifer

May 3rd, 2002 at 8:41 am

OOooo! That's a GREAT idea!

3 | Lynda

May 3rd, 2002 at 10:52 am

That is a great idea. And so simple too!

Who needs automatic backup now? 😉

4 | Christine

May 3rd, 2002 at 12:17 pm

Template export is what I'm still dreaming of … copying & pasting all of those over when I moved in early April was a nightmare!

5 | Kymberlie R. McGuire

May 4th, 2002 at 1:33 am

That worked like a charm (once I figured out what Ben was talking about!). Such a good idea to back these things up.

6 | jess

May 5th, 2002 at 6:44 pm

the one thing i noticed was that the posts in the file produced are in the opposite order when compared to the file created by export in the MT menu.

so when importing, i'm guessing they'll link properly based on date created, but the numbering of the posts would be totally different from the original blog (due to the reverse import).

anyone following me? lol!

7 | Christine

May 5th, 2002 at 6:48 pm

Hmmm… do they always export in the same order when you use the MT export feature? They have always seemed somewhat random to me – so if & when I link to my old posts (which I don't do very often) I've just gone back & recreated those links.

Then again, I am running 2 huge blogs, 1 large blog, and 3 small blogs from 1 copy of MT! That could be part of why mine always seem to be a jumbled mess!

8 | jess

May 5th, 2002 at 6:51 pm

it has always seemed to me like the export goes in date order from first to last post. i.e. my first post always shows up at the top of the page created and the last post at the bottom of the export page.

when using the above, very cool trick, it's the opposite result. not that this will prevent me from using it just in case. but i'm not sure how this would affect the numbering of the entries for html page creation, ya know?

9 | Lynda

May 5th, 2002 at 7:55 pm

True, Jess – I think you can set the sort_order to descending though, so that should take care of that. (or is it ascending, I always get them confused)

Besides, they're displayed in the blog by display order, so the order of the entry ids wouldn't really matter – you'd lose those anyway.

10 | Kyle

May 5th, 2002 at 7:57 pm

Yeah- this works fine unless you don't like waiting the extra time it takes to write to the file. I tried this, but the wait time started to get to me. Now, I just rebuild the file periodically. But, if you don't mind the wait, I encourage you to do it.

11 | jess

May 5th, 2002 at 8:00 pm

all set! thanks lynda. ben just told me that on the MT forum.

does the trick.

i like to keep my entries in that order when i import because of links to my posts here and there. otherwise all of my entries end up being numbered totally different.

i haven't noticed any delay in posting/rebuilding so this is a great trick for me!!

12 | Catherine

May 6th, 2002 at 8:20 am

Please excuse my denseness this morning, (the coffee hasn't kicked in yet), however is this how it is supposed to look? It doesn't look right to me for some reason. The last time I performed an export all my entries had line breaks, this doesn't. Am I doing something wrong?

13 | jess

May 6th, 2002 at 9:00 am

view source and save that file. that's what you want to save.

14 | Catherine

May 6th, 2002 at 10:31 pm

Duh!! Thank you sweetie

15 | Catherine

May 6th, 2002 at 10:31 pm

Duh!! Thank you sweetie