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Can I restore deleted Gmail messages from my local drive offline files?

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By "deleted", do you mean that you deleted them, then erased from the trash, on the online interface? And in this case your goal is to recover them from your offline backup? Or did I misunderstand something? – Gnoupi Mar 25 '10 at 18:06
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Haven't tried it, but if you connect to GMail using it's IMAP interface then you should be able to click and drag emails from your offline file to the live folders.

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Are they actually separated in folders? online and offline ones? Because if not, when he will do that, it is likely that the offline will synchronize with the online, and he will lose his messages for good. – Gnoupi Mar 25 '10 at 16:53
Good point, I was thinking of the offlines stored in a separate file than the newly setup account. – GAThrawn Mar 25 '10 at 22:37
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from offline, forward the message to yourself? I don't know the order the 'sync' works... but it seems worth a try. better yet, while still offline, open the email and copy the contents into a doc file? (in case the former option doesn't work)

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Deleted files actually stay in your trash folder for 30 days. Just go in there and send it back to your inbox.

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Unless he means that he deleted them from the trash on the online interface, and he wants to recover them from his offline backup. At least that's how I understand this problem. – Gnoupi Mar 25 '10 at 18:05
If he 1) clicked delete on email 2) clicked on trash folder 3) clicked on the email again 4) clicked delete forever...well I have no sympathy for him. – davr Mar 25 '10 at 19:36
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yes, because it never happens to anyone to accidentally delete an important mail. Or delete something you realize only after, that you needed it. – Gnoupi Mar 26 '10 at 8:31
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