Need to restore my comments from a previous backup

Hi Everyone,
I recently had a problem with my blog and had to scrub everything from my .Me account and my dive (don't ask - it was all about corrupted formatting). In the process I killed all of my comments and I wondered if anyone knew where that folder is kept? Is this also synched when updating so that one has a local copy? I am very curious.

I recently had a problem with my blog and had to scrub everything from my .Me account and my dive (don't ask - it was all about corrupted formatting). In the process I killed all of my comments and I wondered if anyone knew where that folder is kept? Is this also synched when updating so that one has a local copy? I am very curious.
MMe blog comments are kept on MMe servers, you can get to the raw comments by mean of server side javascript. See my post here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7095635&#7095635
If your blog and comments are still intact, I suggest you to leave them alone, start a new blog and link the previous blog in the new blog.
I have way to extract MMe blog comments into HTML files (had done it on several occasions), even that, there is no way of merge the extracted comments into new blog (except manually copy+paste).

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