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  • Jun. 17th, 1999 at 10:26 AM
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This is the greatest tool ever. Posted originally in [info]lj_nifty, someone has written a tool that will go back and change the permissions of all your public entries to friends only for you. Here is a link to the post. I hope this helps other people like me who wanted their journals to be friends-only. You need java installed to run it, which you can get from www.java.com.

*EDIT*
The original LJ-nifty post is no longer available, but here's a link to the hidejournal website instead:
http://james.is.never.wrong.nu/code/hidejournal/ There is also a [info]hidejournal with more information.

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[info]allamericanmom wrote:
Jun. 17th, 2003 09:55 am (UTC)
Did you get it to work? I've installed Java, but have no idea where to go from here....
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[info]tabbyfoo wrote:
Jun. 17th, 2003 10:02 am (UTC)
once you've installed java, go to start>run> and type in command
you need to save the hidejournal-0.2.1.jar file to the same directory as the command line is in (it's easier than trying to explain how to navigate around to people)... so if your command prompt says C:\ then you need to save the file in your main c drive. if it says C:\my documents, you need to save it in your my documents folder, etc. Once you've saved the file, in the command prompt type dir to list the files. Make sure it says hidejourna-0.2.1.jar and not the same thing with .zip on the end. if it does say .zip, type cp hidejournal-0.2.1.jar.zip hidejournal-0.2.1.jar and hit enter. that should rename it to the right extension. Let me know if it doesn't work, because I get unix and dos commands mixed up and may have given you the wrong one.

once the file is there and has the right extension, and you have java installed, type
java -jar hidejournal-0.2.1.jar username password
(using your info) and hit enter
it may take a few minutes, but it will change all of your public entries to friends only.
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[info]allamericanmom wrote:
Jun. 17th, 2003 10:30 am (UTC)
Re:
I'm getting the "Exception in thread 'main' java.util.zip.ZipException: The system cannot find the file specified
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open (native method)..." etc. error... i tried to rename it like you said, but it said bad command or filename...
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[info]tabbyfoo wrote:
Jun. 17th, 2003 10:33 am (UTC)
post that in the thread on LJ nifty as a comment and see if they can help you...
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[info]allamericanmom wrote:
Jun. 17th, 2003 10:45 am (UTC)
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I figured it out... the command string on the webpage where the program is downloaded from had 0.2-1, not 0.2.1 .... when I saw you'd put it in your commands that way, I retried it and it's working now. I've been trying to comment there and alert him to that, but it's not posting... :/ Stupid LJ!

Thanks for your help.
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[info]afropuff wrote:
Jun. 14th, 2004 11:29 pm (UTC)
I just wanted to comment with a little thankyou for writing up that explaination for how to use Hidejournal. I finally decided to go friends-only and I know about Hidejournal, but I didn't know how to use it. Did a google search and your journal came up as a link.

You explained everything perfectly (the old lj_nifty link is no longer working, so I wasn't able to inquire or ask questions there.)

Thanks again!
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[info]tabbyfoo wrote:
Jun. 15th, 2004 08:59 am (UTC)
You're welcome! :)
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[info]mslilly wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2005 01:25 am (UTC)
I got off to a bad start right away; my computer didn't recognize the .jar extension. Suddenly, I feel VERY illiterate.
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[info]tabbyfoo wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2005 01:46 am (UTC)
hmm.

We're about to leave for dinner right now. If you'd like to call me, maybe you can come over after dinner and we can try to make it work on my computer?
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[info]mslilly wrote:
Mar. 9th, 2005 02:06 am (UTC)
Just might. I'll call after my marky comes home.
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