
The timing of this release makes JohnW's circumstances all the more poignant
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I've tried it a little now and am so glad to have the capability of offline Gmail back with Chrome. Turns out I had correctly installed it. The big shocker was synchronization. The previous way, with Gears, took a long time; messages were downloaded first followed by attachments. I had to decide the span of time to synchronize messages. I have no idea how/when synchronization occurred now. It happened w/o anything written to tell me it was in progress and was done in an instant! So I thought I hadn't installed offmail Gmail properly. I've studied how Gmail synchronizes and am hazy on two of the three info bullets. (See "How much data is synchronized?" in the Help feature within offline Gmail.) Finally, I was able to open attachments, at least the one I tested (a YouTube video). With the old offline Gmail, most of the time I couldn't view attachments.
Finally, this really confuses me: I was working offline earlier today. As expected, my sent messages went to Drafts. When I returned home, the messages got sent and copies remained in Drafts! Further, unlike the previous Gears offline Gmail, they were sent before I opened offline Gmail, when I was in my regular online Gmail. I'm really puzzled by these two occurrences. ~Dodo
Thanks for the reminder. ~Dodo