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If you post from a Windows PC, your data is trapped until they deign to create an export app (WTF!) to pull out the data. Ridiculous! I can pull my stuff out of WordPress by doing Export XML. That they require an app is just plain screwy.


Your data is hardly trapped.

You can export any or all of your posts as xml using the Tumblr api (http://tumblr.com/api) and your browser. eg http://we-heart-sci-fi.tumblr.com/api/read

There are any number of scripts/gists/pasties around the web that will give a simple script to download your posts.


>>>There are any number of scripts/gists/pasties around the web that will give a simple script to download your posts.

So, Tumblr is a site where you can press a button to put stuff in but you have to deal with the stuff you just listed to get it back out. You've made half my own point there.


If they design one such. With Marco's anti-Microsoft proclivities, such a thing might never see the light of day.


Then they should offer to do the damned export on their end with their Macs. I don't care if I have to wait a week or a month. I'm not using Tumblr anymore. Just give me my damned XML.




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