Apple Journal Import/Migration Difficulty

Corrie

Please help

I've purchased Diarium for my laptop through the Microsoft Store for $19.99 and the "pro" app on my phone for $9.99. Neither version will import my Apple Journal data.

The laptop version (Microsoft) doesn't have an option to "migrate from Apple Journal" and the import feature will not accept a ZIP file created from the Apple Export. It is unknown if I can import a single file at a time, as I have over 400 entries to import into Diariam.

The "pro" App (iPhone) does show Apple Journal in the "Migrate from another platform" but doesn't recognize the Apple files in my iCloud in their native format (HTML) nor does the iPhone app recognize a ZIP file created from the files exported from the Apple Journal app. I have exported the Apple Journal data to my iCloud, iPhone and OneDrive and there seems to be no better import functionality from any location.

Did I miss some instructions about the initial import from Apple Journal? Do I have to convert the Apple Export to another file type before the desktop or iPhone version recognize the files to import into Diarium? Thanks for any guidance you can provide.

Diarium version: 3.1.65.0 (on Microsoft based laptop)
OS + version: 3.1.80 (on iPhone)
Device model: Windows 11 laptop - iPhone 15 iOS 26.0.1

timo

The Windows (and Android) app currently doesn't offer the option because I thought it would be used mainly on iOS or macOS.
Currently it's required to provide a .zip file. What exactly do you mean with "the iPhone app does not recognize a ZIP file"? Is there any error message shown? Did you create the ZIP file yourself or did you have Apple Journal app create it? What exactly does the ZIP file contain?

Corrie

The Apple Journal app export produces a file titled, "AppleJournalEntries" containing two folders and a Text file. One folder is titled, "Entries" (containing HTML files for each entry), another folder titled "Resources" (containing CAF, HEIC, M4A, JPG, JPEG, JSON, MOV, PNG and WEBP files) and a singular HTML document titled, "Index" . These were exported from my iPhone 15 to my iCloud account.

When I attempt to import the files from my iCloud account through the iPhone Diarium app, no file is recognized in the location to which I saved the export, most likely because there was no ZIP exported from Apple Journal.

So next, I used my Windows 11 based laptop (I do not have a MAC) to connect to my iCloud account. Through the File Explorer, I was able to download the "AppleJournalEntries" main folder and compressed into a ZIP file (that appears to be 18.34 GB). Then, I uploaded the ZIP back to the original location of the Apple Journal export in my iCloud account and attempted to "migrate" through the Diarium app on my iPhone. The app "sees" the ZIP file uploaded to my iCloud account, however when I select the file on my iPhone, nothing happens, the chosen ZIP file doesn't become highlighted, it does not open, it's as if I'm clicking on a blank place on the screen. I am able to open other folders that appear in the same location as the ZIP file, but nothing migrates or imports.

***UPDATE****
The issue accessing the ZIP file was due to an iPhone memory issue - I ran out of space to open the ZIP file within Diarium. After offloading many apps I was able to connect to the ZIP file of Apple Journal exports. Ultimately, I had to reset my phone, but have successfully migrated Apple Journal to Diarium. 🥳🥳🥳

timo

Glad you got it to work.
With the next update, Diarium allows selecting a folder for migrating from Apple Journal, which should make the process easier

ChristophH

timo Hallo, ich bin seit heute neuer Nutzer und möchte mein bisher geführtes Apple Journal in mein Diarium (iOS) migrieren… Habe das gleiche Problem und möchte ungerne grössere Experimente inklusive Resets machen, Daher: wann ist mit dem Update zu rechnen bzw. gibt es eine andere Möglichkeit?
Viele Grüße
Christoph

timo

ChristophH Ich hab das Update für iOS eben hochgeladen, sollte in den kommenden Tagen verfügbar werden. Lass mich dann gerne wissen, ob es wie erwartet funktioniert