I’ve heard some pretty good things about Windows Live Writer, so I thought I would give it a try to see how capable it was.

After downloading it onto my laptop and tinkering with it for a few minutes, I was quite impressed with how it detected my Wordpress blog and made adjustments to the text format.  So far so good.

I decided to give it a go and write a post on virtualizing one of our domain controllers (which happened earlier this week).  I started working on the post last night, and finished it this morning.  However, I don’t have an internet connection at the new place yet, so I saved it as a draft (just as I had done the previous night), packed up my laptop and drove to the office to make the post.  I had a couple things to do anyway… don’t go thinkin’ I drove to work just to make a blog post.

I opened my laptop, connected to the network, opened up Live Writer, and…. um…WHERE’S MY DRAFT AT?

My post had seemingly disappeared.  It wasn’t in Live Writer’s drafts folder, and even the “Recent Documents” folder was showing that the shortcut was bad.  I understand that this is beta software, but at the same I was seriously unhappy at the prospect of having to retype the whole post. 

Fortunately, I was able to dig it up.  A file search across the hard drive revealed that the post was still present, although it had been moved to a different location.  Why?  Who knows.. I’m just glad I didn’t lose an hour’s worth of work.