Setting your old entries to Private

This is just a short one, but I wanted to get this out here. As we are moving towards launching the site publicly in a couple weeks, there have been a few people who have asked me about the possibility of having a tool to set all their old entries to Private, so they could start with a “clean slate”.

Our Engineers have created an internal tool for us to do this, but we will not be able to expose it for members to use at this time. However, if you are one of the people who would like to do this, please let us know through the Contact Support link down at the bottom of the page. We can run the update for you – it will set all of your entries to Private that were created before the launch of the new site.

Please understand that this only works one way – if we do this and you change your mind, we don’t have a tool to reverse it – so please be sure if you are going to ask us to do this for you. That’s all, and thanks!

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December 24, 2017

Could you create a similar tool to set all previous entries to Friends Only? That allows people we have added as friends since the reboot of OD to still see our old entries, whilst maintaining general privacy otherwise.

December 24, 2017

@lawhussy that totally makes sense, we should have bought of that! Will get that done too.

December 24, 2017

@thediarymaster Great! This is the option I’d love, instead of making them all private. As long as it doesn’t change previously private entries to FO as well.

December 24, 2017

@catchthesparks excellent point

December 24, 2017

Would I be correct in assuming that old entries that were set to private at the time they were written, remain so?

December 24, 2017

@solovoice yes, that is correct.

December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas to you and yours! May 2018 be a spectacular year for you, and OD.

April 3, 2018

I sent a note today to Support, asking for this very thing. Once done, it will be much easier for me to turn my 20 or so public entries back to public, and start afresh with Friends Only. I loved this maintenance tool in the old version of OD. Hope users can eventually have access. Thanks!

April 4, 2018

@kaly great, they will get it done for you – we will have the tool sometime in the future too!