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Gmail offline
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:26 pm
by Kwackerz
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:56 pm
by Samray
It will download all your mails to your hard drive for offline browsing
Dunno how many years mail I have archived there ... but I do know how little room there is on my hard drive.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:51 pm
by Kwackerz
It's controllable..

try this if your hdd is filling
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:27 am
by flatlander
Samray wrote:
It will download all your mails to your hard drive for offline browsing
Dunno how many years mail I have archived there ... but I do know how little room there is on my hard drive.
to gain a little bit of space you can try reducing the recycle bin to 1% and also clearing / removing hotfix uninstall files you may want to use something like ccleaner for this. Also remove any unused programs such as old games etc and all your temp files for the browser even on a 40gb drive should recover between 500mb - Xgb not a lot but helps
other things you can try depend on what you are using such as personal folders if you use Outlook etc. If you have a lot of photos and you copy them straight from a camera them they will be bloated you could try using something like Faststone photo resizer for bulk file size redyuction or just open them in paint and click edit and save also if they are in BMP format change them (save them not just rename them) to .jpg
Takes a day out of your life but if its raining and kids are screaming can be a good way to say can't now dear I am fixing the pc

Re: try this if your hdd is filling
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:17 am
by Kwackerz
flatlander wrote:
but if its raining and kids are screaming can be a good way to say can't now dear I am fixing the pc

Unfortunately Sam doesnt have that luxury.. Unless I phone him..
Good point about the tmp files though
Zip filing archives helps too although gains tend to be in kb and mb's rather than hundreds of mb's
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:38 am
by Samray
Still can't understand d'loading stuff in bulk to your HD from online storage. Rather defeats the object of the exercise.
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:40 am
by Kwackerz
Its mainly aimed at those who use a non permanent connection/wifi. ie: Mobile laptop or.. probably a BT bb connection in cambridgeshire!!
Go online, d/load, work off line, etc
I guess
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:34 am
by flatlander
It is a bit like the synch files idea where you can work on them without a connection as mentioned above and then synch them back to the online.
So say you are going from civilisation to the Fens and will never get a decent signal till doomsday then you may weant access to that address of the seller of thos elusive hangers from ebay....
so local storage would help or simply once you have realised that Google will always keep a copy of all your data and decide you are noot cool with that idea and want it back. you may then need to copy iy locally
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:49 am
by Samray
My Gmail capacity is 7597 MB ... I can just see you downloading that to a phone.

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:12 pm
by Kwackerz

It's controllable..
..however ive room for that on my phone!
so syas someone
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 5:38 pm
by flatlander
Samray wrote:My Gmail capacity is 7597 MB ... I can just see you downloading that to a phone.

who doesn't have a smart phone well not a good one anyway

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 6:18 pm
by Kwackerz
In fairness Im a bit of a phone geek, Dell streak and a BB Torch as well as a few lesser ones.. No Iphone though as I dont rate them in the slightest, Unlike Monsieur Alad..
One just can't have enough phones...

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:32 pm
by Kwackerz
Latest offering from the house of Google is
Google+ ( Google Plus )
You can read about it here:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ ... -life.html
If anyone would like to join, you can use my free invites here:
https://plus.google.com/_/notifications ... SJcF-GU2xs
Theyve just introduced 'games' so people can play angry birds, etc for free
Anyways, info is there, offer is there, help yourself if youre interested as Google+ is invite only at the moment, much the same a gmail was originally.