[papercreters] Opening messages in the downloaded archive

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ken winston caine ken.winston.caine@gmail.com [papercreters]

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Dec 11, 2019, 4:22:41 PM12/11/19
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Am finding files and photos are well-preserved in the unzipped download. However, messages are saved in javascript notation (.json files). And while they can be opened easily with notepad or other text viewer, they display in a form like page source once opened. A lot of code..

Am new to converting .json files and my Googling so far has not turned up a way to open them so that they display just the messages and comments without all the extraneous source code. If anyone knows a trick to do that, please, please share with us.

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Blake Robertson blake@connectra.com.au [papercreters]

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Dec 11, 2019, 5:09:51 PM12/11/19
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Hey Ken,

See my other post. Working on it ;-)

Regards,

Blake


On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 07:22, ken winston caine ken.wins...@gmail.com [papercreters] <paperc...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Am finding files and photos are well-preserved in the unzipped download. However, messages are saved in javascript notation (.json files). And while they can be opened easily with notepad or other text viewer, they display in a form like page source once opened. A lot of code..

Am new to converting .json files and my Googling so far has not turned up a way to open them so that they display just the messages and comments without all the extraneous source code. If anyone knows a trick to do that, please, please share with us.

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Gero Bazant gero.bazant@gmail.com [papercreters]

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Dec 11, 2019, 9:09:16 PM12/11/19
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Hi Ken -

Depending on how the data is structured you can pretty easily convert json data to CSV files via online tools like this:

Otherwise, there are more options available. 

Gero


On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 3:22 PM ken winston caine ken.wins...@gmail.com [papercreters] <paperc...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Am finding files and photos are well-preserved in the unzipped download. However, messages are saved in javascript notation (.json files). And while they can be opened easily with notepad or other text viewer, they display in a form like page source once opened. A lot of code..

Am new to converting .json files and my Googling so far has not turned up a way to open them so that they display just the messages and comments without all the extraneous source code. If anyone knows a trick to do that, please, please share with us.

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'C. C. Visnesky' charmainertaylor@gmail.com [papercreters]

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Dec 12, 2019, 5:53:18 PM12/12/19
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keep going Ken! and BLAKE you are a blessing!


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Charmaine Visnesky Taylor 
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