Moving Livejournal?

I am grateful to mallorys_camera for mentioning the possible End of Days for non-cyrillic livejournals. I hope it is not the case,but, again thanks to her advice, am trying to move my LJ across to Dreamwidth in a burst of emergency archiving (not a verb, surely?). Livejournal has been my faithful and much loved diary for over a decade now. I won't leave unless I have to.

The actual import journal facility on Dreamwidth has me baffled. Having started the import, the Import Journal page doesn't seem to automatically refresh itself, so that,  disturbingly, the 'ready to be entered into the queue created 1 second ago' message is still there after a day. Once I did click the option to refresh the page, only to find the whole operation aborted. I started again. mallorys_camera reassures me that it will work though it can take days...

I love my journal. I love it even more now than I did when I started.  FB's great but you can't just ponder there, or you can but it feels weird,like singing next to klaxons. FB's a scrapbook, LJ's more.