caitaro | Merge Tags

FOR ANYONE THAT HAS TAG ISSUES + WANTS TO MERGE THEM

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_nifty/156195.html?view=4916771 (original topic)

Here's how to merge your tags..

A.) download THIS: http://blog-tools.googlecode.com/files/merge_tags_exe.zip

B.) Follow instructions!

1. Extract the zip to someplace easy to get to. (C:/merge_tags for example)

2. To actually change the tags, you must go to tags.txt and type out the tags you want replaced with what. (you must put it in the format of TAG_YOU_WANT_TO_STAY,Tag_you_want_merged. So I'd put video games,xbox,ps2,gc,DS. This would merge all the system tags into just video games tag) Save it.

3. Open a command prompt. [Start]->Run->cmd

4. Navigate to the folder.. type "cd .." until you get to the "C:/" then type "cd merge_tags" if your files are in C:/merge_tags

5. Now type "merge_tags.exe -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -f tags.txt" (without the quotes, and of course replace username with your username, etc.) and hit enter. If you did it right it will process the tags and you will see URLs from your journal being processed!

Notes:
-If you put your username and password in wrong, it will NOT tell you, so if it gives you a message such as "0 URLS found" you did something wrong. Try making your username lowercase.
-This process takes quite awhile.. took me ~5 minutes for 41 tags (on dialup) So do a rest run to make sure everything works before making a huge amount of tag merges.
-The tags you merged werent merged for real. The old tag is still there, you have to manually delete them VIA tag management in LJ