On Monday, December 9, 2013 9:09:26 PM UTC+8, billhansen wrote: > > Marko - > > Thanks for reminding me that the gmail download feature is already > available. I missed that in Jeff's note. >
But Marko is decidedly wrong, it is NOT available at the moment, only the calendar download is: "*The ability to download your Gmail messages will be rolled out over the next month while Calendar data is available to download for everyone today."* > > I've used Thunderbird in the past. Probably it's grown up somewhat by now, > and is more stable. I'll give it a try again. > Agree. I tried to use Thunderbird to automatically download Gmail, and for a while it worked, until, mysteriously (despite my best efforts to prevent this), it was also *deleting* emails as it downloaded them (it would not 'save to server a copy'). Luckily, I found out about this before all my emails were deleted on the Google servers, and was able to restore them from the trash bin. Thunderbird may have matured by now, but I'm not taking any chances. I'll wait next year for the Gmail email download tool. > Just FYI - I did not write anything about the "FBI ransomware" virus. I do > agree that the cloud is not safer than a well backed-up local HD or > network. > Yes, agree. The cloud is not safer than a well backed-up local HD, and in fact less safe, since in most freeware cloud storage sites you are not allowed to keep multiple copies of your backup, only one copy (or so it seems--the paid versions seem to be different but I don't use them). In any event, the FBI ransomware will infect your entire shared cloud drive and corrupt all your cloud backups. By contrast, I backup with two different USB drives so even if one is corrupted, I can wipe the PC clean and then use the other USB drive to restore my C: drive. You cannot do that with a cloud backup to my knowledge. RL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
