Remember a few months ago when it felt like every single website in existence updated their privacy policy? That was because of GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation from the EU.
Another part of GDPR? Right of access / right to data portability.
What this means is that if you ask for it, companies are to give you access to your data so that you could theoretically move it to another service. Many companies have done this by allowing you to export your data and download it. Even if a company doesn’t provide an automated way, you should still be able to contact them and they should provide your data – it doesn’t have to be automatically generated and downloadable.
Tumblr does provide an automated way to export your blog. This should be done individually for each sideblog as well, if you want. (These are instructions for the website – not the app.)
Go to your blog settings page, ie https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/<your-blog-name>.
Look for the Export section (currently at the bottom)
Click the “Export <your-blog-name>” button.
Depending on the size of your blog, it may take a while to generate the export. It will say that it’s processing, and you can reload the page and come back later to check if it’s done.
When your export is processed and ready, the Export section will have a button to download.
Once you’ve downloaded the file, extract it to a folder on your computer. It will contain:
A media folder with images, gifs, videos, and audio files.
A messages xml file. Your messages are in here, even if it doesn’t look “human readable” and is gibberish to you, I promise. There are tools that will “beautify” xml to make it more readable.
A posts.zip file. Extract this and you’ll see an html folder that has an html file for each of your posts.
Holy shit they finally did it.
BTW, the size of the export varies wildly based on how much media content is on your blog. I’ve got a main and a sideblog with a little over 6000 posts each, one a bit heavier on text, the other skewing more towards photosets and the like. The zip files are 3 gigs and 11 gigs respectively.
Meanwhile, I’m still a little irritated that I just didn’t feel like getting out in the sun much while the getting was good here for a change.
This summer I’ve at least had the sense to keep up the vitamin D supplements. But, getting some sun usually makes me feel better beyond that.
Mr. C finally got back from that trip a little while ago, but he was still waiting for a train in Wales after 7:30 this evening. Thankfully he does have the next couple of days off work, too, and won’t have to drag himself up after like 5 hours of sleep. Glad to get him home, and Mirrors didn’t want to let him go to sleep 😻
It hasn’t been very sunny there either the past few days since the heat finally broke, and I was kind of surprised to see how red his face/neck and arms still were. And then he said something about how how he turned red and started peeling some, but he didn’t really burn! 🤔
To me, “turn anywhere close to that red, and then start shedding skin” constitutes a pretty bad sunburn. That’s the worst level I’ve ever had. (And that usually from pulling dumb shit like staying on/around water all day at the beginning of the summer.) Not sure I want to see what degree of crispy critterness he would call a Real Sunburn.
And that was with his remembering to take along SPF 50, and apparently using some of it. Good thing, since I didn’t think to give him any.
But yeah, very different skin types with reactions to UV exposure. I’m aware of this, to the point that I was basically chasing him around with a bottle of sunblock in Spain. (While I stopped using a lower SPF after a couple of days, with some tan already going in.) He’s come back lobstery from Seattle before, not even in full summer.
Still, I get startled when “turning red and peeling” doesn’t even qualify as a burn by someone’s standards 😨 Ouch.
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