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
    2015-12-20T00:35:48+00:00

    I had read that, but I don't think I do ; at any rate, I couldn't find where to find it to even check. HOWEVER, in looking around in the settings, I saw that the password was blank. I put in my blogger password and it is now working. It was already showing that it was connected to my blog, so I didn't realize I needed to put the password in, in OLW.

    I am still having trouble posting to Blogger, even when I put in a Blogger password! I get the message NotFound:Not Found, just as I had in early June. Nothing works and I am at my wits end.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-20T00:56:11+00:00

    I had read that, but I don't think I do ; at any rate, I couldn't find where to find it to even check. HOWEVER, in looking around in the settings, I saw that the password was blank. I put in my blogger password and it is now working. It was already showing that it was connected to my blog, so I didn't realize I needed to put the password in, in OLW.

    I am still having trouble posting to Blogger, even when I put in a Blogger password! I get the message NotFound:Not Found, just as I had in early June. Nothing works and I am at my wits end.

    Where I found the blank password was within OLW in Options>Accounts>Edit.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-20T00:56:52+00:00

    I, too, was having the same problem. Go to this site for some solutions: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/12/fixing-open-live-writer-errors.html

    I did have to re-enter my password to post subsequently, even though my password was visible and I definitely had the "Remember my password" box checked. Restart OLW and make sure you are running the latest version. Put your Blogger password in again, even if the password box isn't empty. We just have to be patient while this is being worked on and remember that everyone who is working on OLW is doing it in their spare time and for free.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-20T01:45:52+00:00

    You are talking about Open Live Writer. I am talking about Microsoft Live Writer. It worked as of Dec. 6. When I returned from Cuba on the 15th, it did not work.

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