Picture Upload Not Supported By Blog Issue in Live Writer 2009

Posted in WLW by JarrettV on 1/13/2009 4:29:00 PM - CST

I seem to have stumbled across another bug in Windows Live Writer where you may get an error when posting an entry that contains an image. This error does not always occur.

Fortunately, there is a simple workaround. If you see the error, open the Blogs menu and choose Edit blog settings. Proceed through all the steps of wizard clicking Next then click OK to close the settings. You should now be able to post images again.

I posted this bug to the Windows Live Writer Forum.

Update : newer versions of AtomSite 1.0+ have a permanent workaround for this bug.

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Posted by JarrettV on 1/28/2009 11:54:38 AM - CST

A similar bug (which looks related) was posted to the forum: Unable to retrieve post from server

Posted by Mave on 1/28/2009 6:24:16 PM - CST

hey
I'm the guy who posted the bug "Unable to Retrieve post from server" the problem was that at first i added a wordpress.com account to writer and then I stopped working on this blog anymore and i created a new blog on blogger.com. Instead of me creating a new account in writer for "blogger.com" blog, i modified the one that was for wordpress.com and typed in the blogger account details. for some reason and without me noticing it, writer kept on treating my blog (even after typing in the account info for blogger blog) as a wordpress blog. Of course due to dissimilarities between data handling and requests between blogger.com and wordpress.com writer kept on throwing errors at my face (becaus eit's dealing with blogger.com with wordpress.com techniques. until i noticed this, so the solution was: To delete my account in writer and create a new fresh one. now it works flawlessly. Hope this helps anybody.

Posted by JarrettV on 2/2/2009 5:06:46 PM - CST

@Mave: I tried deleting the account from WLW and recreating it but it did not fix the problem. It must be a separate issue from yours.

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Posted by Rik Hemsley on 3/24/2009 10:02:22 AM - CST

Using WLW 14.0.8064.206, AtomSite 0.9, I get a 500 from the server (according to WLW) when attempting to publish or post draft when there's an image in the post.
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Posted by JarrettV on 3/24/2009 8:42:07 PM - CST

Hey Rik, all of your posts went through (they don't show until approved). I'm not sure why it appeared to hang for you. I've tested in Chrome, Firefox, and IE8. I'll do some further testing to see if I can reproduce.