Back up Gmail Data Using Offline Mode: Instructions

Understanding Instructions requires more than a headline. The overview below breaks down the key facts, changes, and user impact.

Instructions Overview

But before we get started, we remind you that this Offline mode works with Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers (requires an add-on Google Gears), Chrome, and does not apply to accounts with features. Multiple Sign-in (change options here).

Activate Offline mode:

Log in to your Gmail account and select Settings or here:

Select the Offline tab and uncheck the check box in the Disable Offline Mail box for this computer, continue to be the option to download which emails the system will download, for example, here we set up backup of all emails in less than 1 time week. Then click Change Label Settings:

Here, there are quite a few available settings that you can use:

- All: the system will download the entire email, in the history and some other special folders in Gmail.

- 1 week: any email with a lifetime of more than 1 week will not be downloaded.

- None: all emails in this folder will not be downloaded.

Besides, users can also fix the maximum number of attachments, even if there are cases where many people who send you files over 100MB are not too complicated. If you want, you can also create a shortcut on the desktop to directly access the mailbox (via the browser). When done at this step, click the Save Changes button:

In the following dialog boxes, click Next:

Select Allow for Trust Gmail to access via Google Gears:

Select the types of shortcuts to create and click OK:

And wait a few minutes, Google will complete the installation process and download the necessary email data to the computer. This period of course depends on the number of email users:

Having done all of the above, we have completed backing up Gmail data to the computer using Offline mode. To open the mechanism to control this mode, click on the small green check icon above the right corner of Gmail, below the account name:

On the other hand, if you want to know the Google Gears data storage location, enter the following path in the Run box:

% UserProfile% AppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefaultPlugin DataGoogle Gears

And copy the mail. Google. Com folder:

Good luck!