I am wondering exactly the same thing. It's fine that we have that data locally, and know where it's located. But how do we restore it if we need to?
On Feb 24, 1:27 pm, JJE <jj.w.engl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd be really interested to know the answer to this too. Is it > possible to restore a gmail account from cached google gears data or > is this not a viable backup solution? > > On Feb 6, 11:12 am, OsamaK <osamak....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sorry Austin, it's not quilt clear. Is it possible to do that? Y/N > > > I just downloaded about 800 MG of data from my Gmail to use it > > offline, I really wish to backup it. > > > On Jan 22, 9:20 pm, Austin <api.aus...@google.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > Locations of the cached files on the desktop are listed here - > > > >http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_localserver.html#filesystem_loc... > > > > Austin > > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Diogenes Duarte > > > <diogenes.dua...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Hi people. > > > > > Is there a secure way of backing up and restoring Gears cached files? > > > > In my > > > > pc, I installed Gears and visited some pages that uses it, but now I > > > > need to > > > > format my hard disk and I'm afraid of losing my Gears cache data. Is it > > > > safe > > > > copy the files from Google Gears folder and then paste them after > > > > reinstall > > > > my O.S?