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UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.9.22 Beta (Jan 26, 2008)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:33:01 GMT

!! This release is now out of date. Please click on the Releases tab and get the new version. Thank you.

*1.0.9.22, 1/26/2008*
!!!! Updated to clean up the initial behavior, when creating "new settings" on the first load.
Now it will not prompt you to save the settings if you haven't made any changes.
For example, you start the new version and then File/Open your existing BBSettings file.
This version will not ask you to save your previous settings, which are empty, before opening that file.

* Updated to better handle errors during the "Getting next chunk,..." process
Fixed a bug where the retry wasn't happening.

!!!! Added more error logging to the Backing Up Posts process

!!!! Fixed bug with a blog entry not having a "Post" field.

!!!! Updated to use a better method of getting the blog URL when using the "Get Feed URL" button.

!!!! Some Posts No Longer Have Title Elements (Blogger Issue)
Fixed an error that would occur when determing a post file name if there was no "title" element in the post's atom XML.
If no title is found, "NoTitle-" + Published date is used (NoTitle-20061204102200)

This used to work fine, but something seems to have changed on the Blogger side of the world.

When I look at the "NoTitle..." posts from my blog, they DON'T have "official" title's anymore.
But I have old backups of those posts and they DID have title's... At least then they did then...

When I go to the raw "self" feed for a post (say href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5655811/posts/default/106026670028866448") there's no title there anymore either.

So the GData.Net library is not broken, Blogger is.

sigh...

!!!! Added an override to override Published dates for restored posts (Work Item #13734)
Updated dates cannot be overridden...
!!!! Fixed bug where the Restore form could be "Ok"'d without entering a password.
!!!! When selecting files to restore, ".Comment.XML" are filtered out (since comment restore is not yet supported). (Work Item #12969)
Updated to restore labels/categories when restoring posts. (Work Item #13628)
!!!! Updated to restore labels/categories when restoring posts.
!!!! Changed Comment URL calculation to handle Service.Post feeds
!!!! Updated the GData.Net (Google Data API for .NET) library to the latest release version (1.1.2.0)
!!!! Moved to VS2008 Development environment
!!!! Added a manifest (for Vista... not required, but VS2008 made it easy...)
!!!! Added additional error checking and logging to the Custom Path Builder process
!!!! Updated to use the Service.Post URL (if available) instead of the ServiceFeed (aka Alternate) (Work Item #11853)
This was done to avoid/resolve FeedBurner redirection issues.

ServiceFeed (aka Alternate) feed would be something like http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default (previously used)
Service.Post feed would be something like http://www.blogger.com/feeds/BlogID/posts/default

The Service.Post feed can be manually seen via the Blog's header ("view source"), Link element with the rel="service.post" attribute.
!!!! Added a "Get Feed URL" button to "Manually add a Blogger blog" on the Blog List form
!!!! Changed the "Custom Path Builder" button caption to "Backup File Naming" (Work Item #12690)
!!!! Change the title of the "Path Builder" form to "Backup File Naming Options" (Work Item #12690)
!!!! Made the default size of the "Backup File Naming Options" form smaller. (Work Item #12690)
!!!! Now the last used/selected Blog in the Available Blogs list will be remembered and restored. (Work Item #12689)
!!!! Updated to support for private, non-feed publishing blogs.
This will require the user to log into Blogger though...
!!!! Added a Right-Click Edit feature to the Blog List form
Now you can edit existing blog list items
!!!! Added "Log into Blogger when backing up this feed" checkbox to the Blog List form, Manual tab
With this you can indicate that you want to log into Blogger when backing up the selected Blog

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.9.23 Beta (Apr 02, 2008)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:29:42 GMT

A minor update to fix the issue where if a XML file does not have a Title node, it will error when restored.

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.9.23 Beta

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:26:10 GMT

A minor update to fix the issue where if a XML file does not have a Title node, it will error when restored.

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.5.51.60 Beta

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:58:17 GMT

!! Updated to use/require .Net 3.5

!! Updated to support restores from combined saves (all posts in one XML file)
So now you can restore from both of the backup save formats...

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.5.51.60

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:56:15 GMT

!! Updated to use/require .Net 3.5

!! Updated to support restores from combined saves (all posts in one XML file)
So now you can restore from both of the backup save formats...

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.9.22 Beta (Jan 26, 2008)

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:37:44 GMT

*1.0.9.22, 1/26/2007*
!!!! Updated to clean up the initial behavior, when creating "new settings" on the first load.
Now it will not prompt you to save the settings if you haven't made any changes.
For example, you start the new version and then File/Open your existing BBSettings file.
This version will not ask you to save your previous settings, which are empty, before opening that file.

* Updated to better handle errors during the "Getting next chunk,..." process
Fixed a bug where the retry wasn't happening.

!!!! Added more error logging to the Backing Up Posts process

!!!! Fixed bug with a blog entry not having a "Post" field.

!!!! Updated to use a better method of getting the blog URL when using the "Get Feed URL" button.

!!!! Some Posts No Longer Have Title Elements (Blogger Issue)
Fixed an error that would occur when determing a post file name if there was no "title" element in the post's atom XML.
If no title is found, "NoTitle-" + Published date is used (NoTitle-20061204102200)

This used to work fine, but something seems to have changed on the Blogger side of the world.

When I look at the "NoTitle..." posts from my blog, they DON'T have "official" title's anymore.
But I have old backups of those posts and they DID have title's... At least then they did then...

When I go to the raw "self" feed for a post (say href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5655811/posts/default/106026670028866448") there's no title there anymore either.

So the GData.Net library is not broken, Blogger is.

sigh...

!!!! Added an override to override Published dates for restored posts (Work Item #13734)
Updated dates cannot be overridden...
!!!! Fixed bug where the Restore form could be "Ok"'d without entering a password.
!!!! When selecting files to restore, ".Comment.XML" are filtered out (since comment restore is not yet supported). (Work Item #12969)
Updated to restore labels/categories when restoring posts. (Work Item #13628)
!!!! Updated to restore labels/categories when restoring posts.
!!!! Changed Comment URL calculation to handle Service.Post feeds
!!!! Updated the GData.Net (Google Data API for .NET) library to the latest release version (1.1.2.0)
!!!! Moved to VS2008 Development environment
!!!! Added a manifest (for Vista... not required, but VS2008 made it easy...)
!!!! Added additional error checking and logging to the Custom Path Builder process
!!!! Updated to use the Service.Post URL (if available) instead of the ServiceFeed (aka Alternate) (Work Item #11853)
This was done to avoid/resolve FeedBurner redirection issues.

ServiceFeed (aka Alternate) feed would be something like http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default (previously used)
Service.Post feed would be something like http://www.blogger.com/feeds/BlogID/posts/default

The Service.Post feed can be manually seen via the Blog's header ("view source"), Link element with the rel="service.post" attribute.
!!!! Added a "Get Feed URL" button to "Manually add a Blogger blog" on the Blog List form
!!!! Changed the "Custom Path Builder" button caption to "Backup File Naming" (Work Item #12690)
!!!! Change the title of the "Path Builder" form to "Backup File Naming Options" (Work Item #12690)
!!!! Made the default size of the "Backup File Naming Options" form smaller. (Work Item #12690)
!!!! Now the last used/selected Blog in the Available Blogs list will be remembered and restored. (Work Item #12689)
!!!! Updated to support for private, non-feed publishing blogs.
This will require the user to log into Blogger though...
!!!! Added a Right-Click Edit feature to the Blog List form
Now you can edit existing blog list items
!!!! Added "Log into Blogger when backing up this feed" checkbox to the Blog List form, Manual tab
With this you can indicate that you want to log into Blogger when backing up the selected Blog

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.7.16 Beta (Aug 11, 2007)

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:14:53 GMT

!! This release is now out of date. Please click on the Releases tab and get the new version. Thank you.

* Double left clicking on the Processing Results list will open the selected file
If you're backing up in the "One file per post" mode, when you double click on a Post title in the "Processed posts" list the given post will be opened in what ever program is configured to open *.XML files (i.e. Internet Explorer, etc)

* The way settings are saved was reworked from the ground up (Work Item #12082)
Settings are now saved via a "normal" process.
File/Open, File/New, File/Save, File/Save As menu items have been added.

You can now save your settings in the location that makes sense to you.
There is no more hidden, magical, registry or isolated storage being used. It's all in the one BBSettings file.

This also means you can backup your Settings, use them on different machines, etc.

Also each blog now has it's own group of settings.
So for one of your blogs you can choose to backup comments, whereas on another you can choose to NOT backup comments.

The Blogger Password IS NOT saved in the BBSettings file. Nor is it saved in any other location on the computer.
The WebProxy Password IS saved in the BBSettings file, but is encrypted using Microsoft's Data Protection API.

* The method of selecting blogs has been reworked from the ground up (Work Item #12081)
You can now manually add Blogger blogs to the list.
You don't have to login at all to backup your blog.

NOTE: The Blogger Backup utility uses your Public Feed to backup your posts.
If your feeds are off, then nothing can be backed up
If your feeds are set to Summary, then only those Summary feeds will be backed up.

I am looking into providing support for private feed backup support (but that will require you to log in to backup your blog...)

Also Restoring Posts of course requires you to log in...

* Updated the GData.Net (Google Data API for .NET) library to the latest release version (1.0.9.9)

* Added Log4Net logging
Logging is on by default and for all levels.
No sensitive information (i.e. password) is meant to be logged.
BUT since errors/exceptions are logged, and I'm not in control of all of those, I cannot guarantee that those exceptions will not include sensitive information.

By default the logs will be created in your Application Data folder and be called ApplicationLog.txt.
The logs are "rolling", meaning each time you start the program, you get a fresh new log file
Only the most recent 5 historical logs are saved (for a total of 6 log files, the current log and 5 historical logs)

A Help/View Logs menu item has been added to open the folder where the logs are...

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.9.22 Beta (Jan 26, 2008)

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:13:18 GMT

This is a major bug fix and feature addition release.

The major new feature is that it now grabs the actual/real blogger feed URL thereby avoiding any Feedburner redirection issues...

*1.0.9.22, 1/26/2007*
* Updated to clean up the initial behavior, when creating "new settings" on the first load.
Now it will not prompt you to save the settings if you haven't made any changes.
For example, you start the new version and then File/Open your existing BBSettings file.
This version will not ask you to save your previous settings, which are empty, before opening that file.

* Updated to better handle errors during the "Getting next chunk,..." process
Fixed a bug where the retry wasn't happening.

* Added more error logging to the Backing Up Posts process

* Fixed bug with a blog entry not having a "Post" field.

* Updated to use a better method of getting the blog URL when using the "Get Feed URL" button.

* Some Posts No Longer Have Title Elements (Blogger Issue)
Fixed an error that would occur when determing a post file name if there was no "title" element in the post's atom XML.
If no title is found, "NoTitle-" + Published date is used (NoTitle-20061204102200)

This used to work fine, but something seems to have changed on the Blogger side of the world.

When I look at the "NoTitle..." posts from my blog, they DON'T have "official" title's anymore.
But I have old backups of those posts and they DID have title's... At least then they did then...

When I go to the raw "self" feed for a post (say href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5655811/posts/default/106026670028866448") there's no title there anymore either.

So the GData.Net library is not broken, Blogger is.

sigh...

* Added an override to override Published dates for restored posts (Work Item #13734)
Updated dates cannot be overridden...
* Fixed bug where the Restore form could be "Ok"'d without entering a password.
* When selecting files to restore, ".Comment.XML" are filtered out (since comment restore is not yet supported). (Work Item #12969)
Updated to restore labels/categories when restoring posts. (Work Item #13628)
* Updated to restore labels/categories when restoring posts.
* Changed Comment URL calculation to handle Service.Post feeds
* Updated the GData.Net (Google Data API for .NET) library to the latest release version (1.1.2.0)
* Moved to VS2008 Development environment
* Added a manifest (for Vista... not required, but VS2008 made it easy...)
* Added additional error checking and logging to the Custom Path Builder process
* Updated to use the Service.Post URL (if available) instead of the ServiceFeed (aka Alternate) (Work Item #11853)
This was done to avoid/resolve FeedBurner redirection issues.

ServiceFeed (aka Alternate) feed would be something like http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default (previously used)
Service.Post feed would be something like http://www.blogger.com/feeds/BlogID/posts/default

The Service.Post feed can be manually seen via the Blog's header ("view source"), Link element with the rel="service.post" attribute.
* Added a "Get Feed URL" button to "Manually add a Blogger blog" on the Blog List form
* Changed the "Custom Path Builder" button caption to "Backup File Naming" (Work Item #12690)
* Change the title of the "Path Builder" form to "Backup File Naming Options" (Work Item #12690)
* Made the default size of the "Backup File Naming Options" form smaller. (Work Item #12690)
* Now the last used/selected Blog in the Available Blogs list will be remembered and restored. (Work Item #12689)
* Updated to support for private, non-feed publishing blogs.
This will require the user to log into Blogger though...
* Added a Right-Click Edit feature to the Blog List form
Now you can edit existing blog list items
* Added "Log into Blogger when backing up this feed" checkbox to the Blog List form, Manual tab
With this you can indicate that you want to log into Blogger when backing up the selected Blog

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.9.22 Beta

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:12:06 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.9.22 Beta

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:06:47 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.9.20 Beta

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:18:02 GMT

*1.0.9.20, 11/24/2007*
* Added an override to override Published dates for restored posts (Work Item #13734)
Updated dates cannot be overridden...
* Fixed bug where the Restore form could be "Ok"'d without entering a password.
* When selecting files to restore, ".Comment.XML" are filtered out (since comment restore is not yet supported). (Work Item #12969)
Updated to restore labels/categories when restoring posts. (Work Item #13628)
* Updated to restore labels/categories when restoring posts.
* Changed Comment URL calculation to handle Service.Post feeds
* Updated the GData.Net (Google Data API for .NET) library to the latest release version (1.1.2.0)
* Moved to VS2008 Development environment
* Added a manifest (for Vista... not required, but VS2008 made it easy...)
* Added additional error checking and logging to the Custom Path Builder process
* Updated to use the Service.Post URL (if available) instead of the ServiceFeed (aka Alternate) (Work Item #11853)
This was done to avoid/resolve FeedBurner redirection issues.

ServiceFeed (aka Alternate) feed would be something like http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default (previously used)
Service.Post feed would be something like http://www.blogger.com/feeds/BlogID/posts/default

The Service.Post feed can be manually seen via the Blog's header ("view source"), Link element with the rel="service.post" attribute.
* Added a "Get Feed URL" button to "Manually add a Blogger blog" on the Blog List form
* Changed the "Custom Path Builder" button caption to "Backup File Naming" (Work Item #12690)
* Change the title of the "Path Builder" form to "Backup File Naming Options" (Work Item #12690)
* Made the default size of the "Backup File Naming Options" form smaller. (Work Item #12690)
* Now the last used/selected Blog in the Available Blogs list will be remembered and restored. (Work Item #12689)
* Updated to support for private, non-feed publishing blogs.
This will require the user to log into Blogger though...
* Added a Right-Click Edit feature to the Blog List form
Now you can edit existing blog list items
* Added "Log into Blogger when backing up this feed" checkbox to the Blog List form, Manual tab
With this you can indicate that you want to log into Blogger when backing up the selected Blog

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.7.16 Beta (Aug 11, 2007)

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:25:43 GMT

* Double left clicking on the Processing Results list will open the selected file
If you're backing up in the "One file per post" mode, when you double click on a Post title in the "Processed posts" list the given post will be opened in what ever program is configured to open *.XML files (i.e. Internet Explorer, etc)

* The way settings are saved was reworked from the ground up (Work Item #12082)
Settings are now saved via a "normal" process.
File/Open, File/New, File/Save, File/Save As menu items have been added.

You can now save your settings in the location that makes sense to you.
There is no more hidden, magical, registry or isolated storage being used. It's all in the one BBSettings file.

This also means you can backup your Settings, use them on different machines, etc.

Also each blog now has it's own group of settings.
So for one of your blogs you can choose to backup comments, whereas on another you can choose to NOT backup comments.

The Blogger Password IS NOT saved in the BBSettings file. Nor is it saved in any other location on the computer.
The WebProxy Password IS saved in the BBSettings file, but is encrypted using Microsoft's Data Protection API.

* The method of selecting blogs has been reworked from the ground up (Work Item #12081)
You can now manually add Blogger blogs to the list.
You don't have to login at all to backup your blog.

NOTE: The Blogger Backup utility uses your Public Feed to backup your posts.
If your feeds are off, then nothing can be backed up
If your feeds are set to Summary, then only those Summary feeds will be backed up.

I am looking into providing support for private feed backup support (but that will require you to log in to backup your blog...)

Also Restoring Posts of course requires you to log in...

* Updated the GData.Net (Google Data API for .NET) library to the latest release version (1.0.9.9)

* Added Log4Net logging
Logging is on by default and for all levels.
No sensitive information (i.e. password) is meant to be logged.
BUT since errors/exceptions are logged, and I'm not in control of all of those, I cannot guarantee that those exceptions will not include sensitive information.

By default the logs will be created in your Application Data folder and be called ApplicationLog.txt.
The logs are "rolling", meaning each time you start the program, you get a fresh new log file
Only the most recent 5 historical logs are saved (for a total of 6 log files, the current log and 5 historical logs)

A Help/View Logs menu item has been added to open the folder where the logs are...

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.5.14 Beta (Jul 21, 2007)

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:24:56 GMT

!! This release is now out of date. Please click on the Releases tab and get the new version. Thank you.

* Added Restore Post Feature (Work Item #11531)
Now you can selectively restore previously backed up posts
This is feature, like the rest of the app, is in beta testing (i.e. once it hits the public, I'm sure people are going to find issues/bugs/etc)

Only "One Post per File" backups are currently supported.

PLEASE NOTE: Blogger has a 50 Post Per Day limit.
Meaning you will only be able to post a maximum of 50 posts a day to a blog. Total. This is a Google/Blogger limitation.
No errors that I can catch will occur, once you hit the 50 limit the posts will just not appear in the blog.

To try to help you track the number of posts you've restored on a given day, a Restored Posts count is tracked.

Also where possible I try to warn you when you've hit the 50 post a day limit...

* Added the underscore "_" character as a built-in post naming option (Work Item #11840)

* Added the Post's page URL as a Post Naming option (Work Item #11841)
If the post's complete URL is http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2007/07/This_is_a_Blog_Post.html

Then the page URL "This_is_a_Blog_Post" is the value used for this new Post Naming option.

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.5.14 Beta (Jul 21, 2007)

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:51:30 GMT

* Added Restore Post Feature (Work Item #11531)
Now you can selectively restore previously backed up posts
This is feature, like the rest of the app, is in beta testing (i.e. once it hits the public, I'm sure people are going to find issues/bugs/etc)

Only "One Post per File" backups are currently supported.

PLEASE NOTE: Blogger has a 50 Post Per Day limit.
Meaning you will only be able to post a maximum of 50 posts a day to a blog. Total. This is a Google/Blogger limitation.
No errors that I can catch will occur, once you hit the 50 limit the posts will just not appear in the blog.

To try to help you track the number of posts you've restored on a given day, a Restored Posts count is tracked.

Also where possible I try to warn you when you've hit the 50 post a day limit...

* Added the underscore "_" character as a built-in post naming option (Work Item #11840)

* Added the Post's page URL as a Post Naming option (Work Item #11841)
If the post's complete URL is http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2007/07/This_is_a_Blog_Post.html

Then the page URL "This_is_a_Blog_Post" is the value used for this new Post Naming option.

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.5.14 Beta

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:04:02 GMT

_I hope to get this release out by next weekend, 7/22'ish_

* Added a "Restore Post(s)" feature
You can now point the utility at a previously backed up single post (or select a number of them) and restore them to your Blogger blogs.

Any previously backed up comments for the given post are not currently restored.

This is an "alpha" feature as I'm sure when it hits the public people are going to find issues/bugs/etc or ask for additional functionality.

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.5.15 Beta

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:00:12 GMT

CREATED RELEASE: v1.0.5.15 (Restore Post(s) Feature Added)

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:58:10 GMT

_I hope to get this release out by next weekend, 7/22'ish_

* Added a "Restore Post(s)" feature

You can now point the utility at a previously backed up single post (or select a number of them) and restore them to your Blogger blogs.

Any previously backed up comments for the given post are not currently restored.

This is an "alpha" feature as I'm sure when it hits the public people are going to find issues/bugs/etc or ask for additional functionality.

UPDATED RELEASE: v1.0.0.5 Alpha (Apr 21, 2007)

Sun, 20 May 2007 19:25:29 GMT

See home page for release details... Still alpha, but better. :)

CREATED RELEASE: 1.0.0.5 Alpha

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMT

*** 1.0.0.5, 3/17/2006 Added "Maximum Enrties Per File" option When backing up post to a single file, this option will let you "batch" them into groups. Setting "Maximum Enrties Per File" to 250 when using the "Atom Combinded" format means that the a given combinded XML file will only have 250 posts in and and additional files added as needed. For example, if you have 397 posts in your blog, and your max is set to 250, you will get two files. The first with 250 posts and the second with the remainder... Updated to remember and restore main form size and position Upgraded/replaced the gdata.dll with the latest release of google.gdata.client.dll(1.0.9.4) Added error handling to better deal with timeout issues when getting the get batch of posts. *** 1.0.0.4, 3/15/2006 Updated Blogger root URL, Replacing "Blogger 3.0 (Beta)" with "Blogger 3.0" and "Blogger 2.0" with "Blogger 2.0 (Old Blogger)" *** 1.0.0.3, 11/26/2006 Updated to support saving of comments from Blogger 3/(Beta) blogs Blogger 2 does not support the extraction of comments... Comments currently always save a seperate Atom 1.0 files no matter the selected "save posts as(format)" option Added "Save posts as(format)" option This is the begining of support for saving the posts in different formats. Atom Single (one file per post) Atom Combinded(all posts in one file) [Pending] BlogML Combinded(all posts in one file) [Pending] HTML Single [Pending] HTML Combinded [Possible] Open XML/WordML (Office 2007) Single [Require .Net 3 be installed] [Possible] Open XML/WordML (Office 2007) Combinded [Require .Net 3 be installed] [Possible] PDF Single [Possible] PDF Combinded [Possible] MHTML etc, etc. * This feature needs some major rework and needs a provider/plugin model. Fixed bug where Latest 50 & Latest 100 stopped after only getting the latest 25 Added Version Number to main form's title text This was done to make it very easy to see what version is being run.

UPDATED RELEASE: 1.0.0.5 Alpha

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMT

See home page for release details... Still alpha, but better. :)