Sorry to bother, but I haven’t downloaded my archive and am wondering what exactly you get once you unzip that monster file. What is in there and how do you view it?

It’s a zip file. You unzip it and you get a folder labeled “html”. This (I think) has an html file for each post that you’ve ever made. I was confused because I thought they were just links, but they’re actually self-contained html documents with the post info/picture/video/etc included. Then you get a “media” folder. This looks like it has every picture, video, and (probably) sound file you’ve posted (I wouldn’t know because I deleted all my audio files when tumblr cracked down on them). And there’s an .xml file for messages. Then theres a zipped file of posts which, when you unzip it, has an xml file of your posts. Theoretically you can upload that xml to blogging platforms but Blogger seems like the only viable one (because if I’m not mistaken, wordpress costs a monthly fee I’d rather not pay). And Blogger seems to have some kind of problem with the way the code in the XML file is written. Bluh

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