Changing save location for draft posts – Windows Live Writer

While stating out using Windows Live Writer -http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8621 – a tool that allows you to create drafts of your blog posts without knowing HTML in an easy to use client side application – I immediately found a need to change where my drafts were saved.  The goal was to create drafts and save them to a shared location where I could easily review them later.  The first location that came to mind was my Dropbox folder, unfortunately there are no built in options for changing this.  I tried to do the registry hack found here but was unsuccessful so I continued my search.  I ended up by finding a solution that works by using “Symbolic Links”  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link

Check out the solution here: http://www.cto20.com/post/Tips-Tricks-Customize-the-Location-of-Windows-Live-Writere28099s-e2809cMy-Weblog-Postse2809d-Folder.aspx

Thank you Antonio!

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The First Post with Live Writer

Here is the first post using Live Writer – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8621 -a tool for composing blog posts in an easy client side tool.  Why am I trying out Live Writer?  Well for starters I wanted a way to write a post and save it for review later.  I find that I actually enjoy reviewing and editing things, from code snippets, designs, even online blog posts.  Quickly writing content and storing it away for later in my online blog just did not seem easy and I find that actually submitting a post triggered a mental button in my head to fire that said “I am done with this…move on”.  The ability to review what I write is important. For starters it will limit the emotional reaction posts that can get me into trouble and reviewing for correct content is never a bad thing.

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Get blogging again will ya!!

As suggested by the very wise Andy Leonard (http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/) I am going to give LiveWriter a try. I downloaded the bits from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8621 and began the install process but I soon ran into an issue.  It seems I had some older Windows Live applications on my machine which the install was not too happy about.  I uninstalled all Windows Live programs and tried again - Lets see how this goes.  Hopefully next post will be with Live Writer.