Windows live writer wont connect to blogger

Anonymous
2015-05-26T22:10:34+00:00

I have been using the windows live writer for years and today it wont let me post into my blogger blog. 

The first error was stating that my user name and password was incorrect so I changed it. It still didn't work and still stating the same issue. I clean/repaired up the windows essentials like other forms said. Now the error message I get is blogger return the following error: Notfound: not found. I uninstalled and reinstalled and it keeps saying the same issue.

Thanks.

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Anonymous
2015-06-02T01:38:24+00:00

please make sure that you use the following steps

  1. Verify you are using http or https for you website.
  2. Add ' @gmail.com ' at the end of your user name.
  3. If your account has 2-step verification enabled then see the following guide to use app specific password rather than your original password.

App specific password generation

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-14T15:15:02+00:00

    Thank you. Until today I didn't even know what OLW (some people seem to call it OWL!) was. A lot of the stuff about the problems with LiveWriter is pretty incomprehensible - I consider myself fairly computer literate even so. I knew that sometime in the future LiveWriter was going to be open source but I did not know when. As far as I was aware (confirmed by what other people had been writing about it) this was still an ongoing problem between Microsoft and Google, and that nobody was doing anything until it did become open source. It's been very hard to get any straight answers about this problem, wherever I have searched online. I did not mean to come over as rude but I have been getting absolutely desperate about this. Of course I am extremely grateful to any unpaid volunteers who are working on this on our behalf - don't get me wrong. I did not even know they were doing so. I am sorry that my previous post caused you (or anybody else for that matter) any offence - that was NOT my intention. I just wanted some action from Microsoft!!

    Kind regards.

    Shoshi

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-14T22:11:29+00:00

    I am willing to switch over to Open Live Writer but I am having the same problem there and cannot set my blog up.  So excuse me for asking for help.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-15T06:06:32+00:00

    I have been using Live Writer for years, too.   Probably since 2009.  For my Blogger blog.  I've never had this happen until yesterday (12-13-15).  What do I need to do?  I'm still using Windows 8, does that have anything to do with it.  Help!  I need to publish a post ASAP!

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-15T09:10:08+00:00

    For now just hang in there, in the interim you'll need to use an alternative publishing tool or go to blogger.com to post.

    The issue is currently being fixed in Open Live Writer, there has been progress even in the last few hours, so hopefully it won't be too long before it's ready. You can find updates to the work here: https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter/pull/101

    It's not directly related to Windows 8 support, the Blogger authentication issue affects everyone. That said, apparently the OLW team are focusing on Windows 10 although it should continue to work OK on Win 7 & 8 as well.

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