Backup and Restore Windows Live Writer Settings using Live Writer Backup Utility
Windows live writer one of the best desktop blogging tool makes your blogging live lot more easier. But when you are moving your Windows live writer from one computer to another you have to move the settings as well else you end up configuring everything again. Scott Lovegrove has created free tool that takes care of this by backing up your Windows live writers settings.
What does this Backup?
- Blog settings
- Draft posts
- Recent blogs or posts
- Plugins
Using this tool you can easily restore these settings without any effort.
Scott suggests: If you’re running this on Vista and you have UAC turned on, you will need to run this as administrator, or you will be asked to accept/deny.
Well I did not have any problems as I had turned off my UAC, but if you have UAC turned ON then better run as suggested by Scott.
Download Live Writer Backup Utility
Scott also has written a post that tells you how to schedule Windows live writer backups.
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a Beer! :)
__DIRECTORY__ Listen to this postIf you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
I used live writer long time back, but stopped using it as I started to blog from my laptop and was too lazy to start over the set up again! I think this will help me. Thanks dude :).
I never got back to Live Writer because of a lot of SEO features that it lacks and of course I did not know earlier how to make a backup of my posts but this software will help.
Thanks for sharing and do let me know how WidgetBucks is doing for you?
Windows live writer is not publishing posts in blogger. If I hit publish, they are stored as draft and I have to sign in to blogger and publish every post manually
DJ-
I love live writer coz it makes my blogging easy.
Ramanujam-
It works fine with my self hosted wordpress. I have not tried this in blogger.
For me Live writer is not working at all. Its not detecting the rpc call for my blog.
I use Windows Live Writer, but I’ve been having some issues with it, such as the fact that it publishes my posts, but does not keep my pictures centered even though they were on the local post. I have to download the post again, re-center the images, and then publish again!
Either way, I still really like it and use it for my blog. What are some of the other blog editors you guys are using?
Shivaranjan, thanks for the backup utility!
[...] found a way to backup windows live writer posts, drafts, plugins and settings. Click to read his post on How to backup windows live writer. If you are looking for automating windows live writer backup click to read this post by the plugin [...]
Nirmal-
I had this issue once with live writer. I just moved a xmlrpc file from a same version of fresh wordpress and it solved my problem. Try this and let me know.
Did you install the fresh version on another domain or subdomain? Or you installed WP again?
I did not install a fresh version. Suppose you have wordpress 2.3 installed in your blog, then download a fresh copy of Wordpress 2.3 and copy the xmlrpc.php from that and move that file alone to your wordpress directory. But take a backup of your old file first. I was also bugged by this problem and I did this it got solved. It worked for me. Not sure if it would for you, but you can give it a try.
[...] Via: Shivaranjan [...]
Backup Your Windows Live Writer Settings…
If you are a full time or a part time blogger, setting up a blogging tool like Windows Live Writer can be time consuming especially when you are moving from one system to another.You can make this process look really simple by using Scott Lovegrove’s…