http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/fubar Questions tagged with 'fubar' at Ask MetaFilter. Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:25:05 -0800 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:25:05 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/65892/Help%2Dmoving%2Dbroken%2DMovable%2DType%2Ddatabase%2Dto%2DWordPress I have a personal blog running under Movable Type. I want to move to WordPress. I've exported the existing entries to a text file, so that's good. <i>However</i>, a couple years ago my <i>previous</i> MT install tanked (<a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/41314/I-cant-access-my-blogs-MT-control-panel">similar to this</a>). I cannot access it. <b>I have several years worth of posts that are stuck in a database that I can't get to.</b> I've been gradually moving these by hand to my existing MT install, but that's a pain in the ass. Is there some automated way to crawl/scrape the existing HTML files in order to retrieve these "lost" entries? Some way to break back into a corrupt MT database? Some way to repair it? (The install is BerkelyDB-based.) Important note: I have FTP access to all the "lost" entries, too. If I were ambitious, I'd figure out how to write a script that would parse all this information for me. I'm not ambitious, and am hoping that somebody has already done such a thing...<br> <br> <small>Next on the agenda: converting an existing custom MT template to WP!</small><br> <br> For the record: <a href="http://www.foldedspace.org/weblog/2007/06/back_to_the_future_1.html">current MT install</a> and <a href="http://www.foldedspace.org/archives/004980.html">previous MT install</a> tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.65892 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:25:05 -0800 blog blogging database fubar movabletype wordpress jdroth