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
    2015-05-28T18:23:43+00:00

    I would very much like to go on using Windows Live Writer as well, if anyone at MS could provide a fix for this I would be very grateful.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-28T18:06:21+00:00

    I just tried connecting and posting to Blogger using an iPad app called Blogsy.  It worked perfectly with no problems at all.  Blogsy has obviously made the changes necessary to move from ClientLogin to Google's new authentication process.

    I find it interesting that a small outfit like Blogsy can do this while Microsoft missed the boat entirely.  BTW - Blogsy is the closest app to LiveWriter that I've yet seen that works with Blogger.  With my Apple external keyboard and iPad it works pretty well.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-05-28T17:56:01+00:00

    This ping pong of posts to boards is exactly what I hate about all (?) software companies nowadays. Does anyone from the organisation actually read these boards? and take any notice of what its user community is saying? Where are all the old-fashioned support requests systems gone? All these boards end up doing is going round and round in circles, back and forth between suppliers, frustrating and alienating users of both suppliers, and the real issues getting lost in the melee of posts offerring less than helpful advice in the place of real support, real answers, good quality how to video instructions in a language that everyday folks can understand.

    With regard to this problem I am now on the hunt for a Windows and or Android WSIWIG that works. I really don't want to move my blog from Blogger to WordPress, just as I really don't want to stop using WLW, but unless a fix comes soon I shall be forced to.  What does "soon" mean to me? Answer is days, not weeks, certainly NOT months, and ideally something worked out so this never happens again.

    Have we had any answer by Microsoft to this thread?

    A suggestion: Please everyone go to the very first page of this thread and "Recommend this discussion" perhaps if this number goes astronomic then Microsoft will wake up and respond.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-05-28T17:30:58+00:00

    I had the same problem. "error: Notfound: not found"

    I removed the passwords, changed everything to see if I could get it to start conning with Blogger (again). But I got nothing.

    So, removed the accounts. Then tried to re-add them back to Windows Live Writer. Nothing.

    Then I found this: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/blogger/-49FC2\_0l-g/ZpI3-K6YO6UJ

    I was not the only person having this problem.

    I waited 1/2 the day, then began moving all my blogs posts from Blogger to WordPress. I would PREFER to keep using Blogger but since they don't seem to give a care about those using their site, it looks like I will be transferring everything over to WordPress.

    Only thing I am asking, is for this issue to be resolved. Blogger should get off it's rear & fix the issue. Instead of ignoring what we have to say.

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