I have my whole blog archived now to an external hard drive, with each week as a separate HTML document. But allegedly there is a way to archive the whole thing as a single document, which would make my life that much simpler. In the Blogger dashboard, I can go to "settings," find "blog tools," and there I am told that I can export the entire blog to publish elsewhere or archive. But when I do, what I get is a zero kb XML document--empty and worthless.
If anybody can give me better directions via comments or email on how to accomplish this seemingly simple task (assuming that it's really possible), I'd be grateful.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
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Sorry, I can't help you, but I can confirm that the Export feature is broken, as I just tried it and got the same useless result.
I just exported mine through the dashboard as an xml file and it saved as about 1 mb, but upon opening all content is there. I wanted to run it through to see if it worked, so it sounds like you might be experiencing an issue with your account.
It works for me also. 19GB file. Ouch. I used Firefox as a browser. Chose "Save as" when the popup came up and then browsed my download folder and it was there called blog-01-06-2010.xml. What browser do you use? Perhaps it does not have full XML support or some component that Blogger needs?
Tried it with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari--same result every time.
Maybe this is not what you are looking for but...why not do the export (now many files), and then ZIP the files and rename: BLOG_2009.zip.
This will significantly shrink the file down too.
I found it under Setting/Basic at the top of the page are Import, Export and Delete options.
I chose the Export and it opened a box to choose open or save. I chose save and ended up with a 4mb file.
Google Instructions
You can try this: http://softsnow.griffin3.com/merger/merger.shtml
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