For the last one month, Open Live Writer has had issues posting posts with images to blogger. Posts with only texts are fine, but any images inserted would cause the post/upload step to fail with this error:
Expert users where quick to point out that the issue is not in the blogger API, but in the API used by OLW to upload images. You see, OLW uploads any post images into google photos in a separate album, then use the generated URL to embed the images in the HTML code of the post being uploaded. Sometime in December 2018, google silently changed something in their API , which caused all subsequent image uploads to fail from OLW.
Well thanks to the code being open source, developers patched the current version and have released a beta version with this issue fixed. The new version is now called 0.6.3
So I tried downloading and installing this new beta version, and it is fixed now !
Download the new beta version from here :
And running the installer updates the version. There is minor glitch though. OLW opens multiple windows of the new editor, for some odd reason.
But there is an easy fix. Go down to the folder where OLW is installed, and delete the update.exe file from there. Running Live Writer after that does not open up multiple instances.
Cheerio ! Go Open source !
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