2020-01-26 06:35:54
2020-01-25 17:43:33
2020-01-25 17:43:33
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Is Exporting personal data working?
!Friendica Support
Hi all,
Was planning on adjusting post expiry times and had already made note to people here to do the exporting of their personal data if it was important to them.
I received a comment back that user data export didn't seem to be working appropriately, so I've gone and checked myself, and it seems it isn't. Using the "Export All" functionality sounds like it should export user's posts/items, correct?
I did an Export All and got a 30-line (20MB) file, and when I go grepping for terms from my posts, I see no results. Also, when trying to prettify or view the JSON with Firefox or python's json.tool, there's complaints about the JSON itself (both barf and bail on it).
Python says: "Extra data: line 2 column 1 - line 31 column 1 (char 585829 - 20463542)"
Firefox says: "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON data at line 2 column 1 of the JSON data"
As you can probably tell, I haven't tested this functionality previously, so am at this point a little ignorant of what I'm supposed to get. So, if I'm missing the gist of what is happening and all is cool, then great... but, the description with the Export All function seems to suggest we should get everything minus photos, and I'm not seeing that.
... Further note: I do see that the IDs of the posts are included, but not the content. Is that what's expected?
Hi all,
Was planning on adjusting post expiry times and had already made note to people here to do the exporting of their personal data if it was important to them.
I received a comment back that user data export didn't seem to be working appropriately, so I've gone and checked myself, and it seems it isn't. Using the "Export All" functionality sounds like it should export user's posts/items, correct?
I did an Export All and got a 30-line (20MB) file, and when I go grepping for terms from my posts, I see no results. Also, when trying to prettify or view the JSON with Firefox or python's json.tool, there's complaints about the JSON itself (both barf and bail on it).
Python says: "Extra data: line 2 column 1 - line 31 column 1 (char 585829 - 20463542)"
Firefox says: "SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON data at line 2 column 1 of the JSON data"
As you can probably tell, I haven't tested this functionality previously, so am at this point a little ignorant of what I'm supposed to get. So, if I'm missing the gist of what is happening and all is cool, then great... but, the description with the Export All function seems to suggest we should get everything minus photos, and I'm not seeing that.
... Further note: I do see that the IDs of the posts are included, but not the content. Is that what's expected?
Hypolite Petovan 4 months ago
item-contentoruser-contact). I updated it recently ondevelopto include custom profile fields but the rest was untouched.Anadam :-D 4 months ago
Thanks!
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