a LJ question...

[ratcreature]

In the LJ memory function, is there a way to edit the keyword you chose without changing it manually for each entry? I had made a keyword "JLA" because my first Justice League related post had been about a JLA comic. When I first started to post about the cartoon series I just chose the same keyword, because I saw no point in having separate Justice League categories, after all from the subject lines you can usually guess what's it about, and my keywords/categories are cluttered as it is. However it occurred to me that this is misleading, when people just see the keyword "JLA" they are probably not going to click there if they're just interested in the cartoon, so I'd like to change the keyword from "JLA" to "Justice League" to cover all incarnations (that would also be flexible enough should I ever read JLE or JLI comics...). Is there a way to do this?

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[cathexys.livejournal.com]

i've tried before and couldn't find a way...if you do, please post it! personally, i find the memory section one of the worst features of lj...i really would like to subsegment which is not possible or control the order in which entries appear...argh! hope you find a way...

[ratcreature]

Sadly I have now browsed the LJ FAQ and #47 (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=47) says:

"To delete a memory category, you will need to edit any existing memories associated in that category and remove the category keyword. Alternatively, you may consider deleting all the memories under that memory category. There is no easy way to delete a memory category without removing this category keyword from all existing memories. Similarly, in order to change the name of a memory category, you must change it on each of the memories contained in that category."

I guess the only option is that a client might offer this as an automated feature, but since so far it's only 10 entries or so, I guess I'll do it by hand. *grumble* The category management of MT is much more comfortable.