I suspected that would be the case. I am using gmail as I changed providers after over 10 years with att dialup and don't want to go through that again ...I considered yahoo but settled on gmail as it seemed likely to have longevity ...I am using pop and outlook ...the heck with their scheme which seems mostly directed at snooping for push opportunities ...in outlook I save and archive mail for years and have folders for all and can backup the whole sheebang with 2 .pst files which can go on my thumb drive for portability too ...I don't see what good the online gmail is unless one used a blackberry or such and had limited space and a need to see old mail for work or such ...I use gmail just as a portal, that's all ...thanks for the info ...doesn't seem like it's worthwhile for my purposes.
-----Original Message----- From: Tony B [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:49 PM To: rleesimon Subject: Re: gmail offline Buried deep at C:\Users\cj\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\sdvhhoyb.default\Google Gears for Firefox\mail.google.com is 231mb of new data, mostly attachments, mostly .jpgs.. The mail itself seems to be in a long series of numbered plain text files like mail[123]. Most of these files are unreadable in notepad, though I suspect there may be many plain text emails saved among them. This isn't quite what I really wanted from gmail. I'd rather just have a scheduled "Download zip with all emails" setting. But this is not bad; I can always zip it myself, but then, being on C:, it's getting imaged daily/monthly anyway. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:14 PM, rleesimon <[email protected]> wrote: > How much HDD space does it take up for 2 years of email ? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony B [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:40 PM > Subject: gmail offline > > > Anyone else got this new offline gmail installed? > > Install was painless, but I had to initialize the tool in the upper > right before it started sync'ing. It took maybe 15 minutes to download > my gmail, which goes back to 2007, and I can read them all now while > offline. When killing the internet, it took gmail ages to understand > what was happening and actually give me a usable interfa ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
