Monday, October 21, 2013

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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