This is a small group created on Facebook. They look for ways/solutions to export their Typepad content. A few sad quotes:
Discouraging. Yesterday I paid for the Bluehost migration service, and this morning they refunded my money, saying they couldn't access Typepad's proprietary software.
While I had been busily patting myself on the back for managing the task of migrating all my text from the former Tyepad site by way of a WordPress plug-in called, promisingly, Movable Type and Tyepad Importer, I naively failed to glean that all the images were still being hosted by the Typepad site, which WordPress was simply pulling from, for lack of a better term. In other words, I saved all the words, but all the visuals were still right where they’d always been. And now, … every image I’d posted prior to the late August transition, well … they’re just gone.
Typepad originally said it was going to keep things up and running until September 30. Evidently, either someone jumped the gun and flicked the switch too soon, spilled coffee on the keyboard or did fucking something, but my old blog is now inaccessible, and it’s impossible to even log into Typepad. Maybe it’ll come back to fulfill the stay-of-execution period until September 30, but … my hopes are not high.
When I’ve had the opportunity, I’ve been hitting the Wayback Machine like a hammer and culling what old photos I can from the old site for the purposes of … good lord … rebuilding it all, but that’s a sporadic task, at best. We’re talking about two decades’ worth of pictures that illustrated my posts and brought certain stories to life. These include not only my own photographs, but countless archival photos of people, places and things from all over the map.
Once again, I’m going to salvage what I can, but it promises to be a long and arduous process, and I am commensurately overwhelmed and crestfallen about it all.
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