Commands by poslfit (1)

  • Force delete of Google Chrome Google-related local storage, make Gmail Offline work again

    If you are a regular user of Google Chrome and Gmail Offline, you'll find that Gmail Offline stops working after a while due to corruption of its local storage in your browser. Worse, trying to use Google Chrome's "Clear Browsing Data" menu command to remove all the local storage is (1) overkill, because it deletes non-Google page local storage, and (2) ineffective, because once the storage is corrupt, Google Chrome doesn't know how to delete it either. Fortunately, it's all stored in obviously named files in your home directory; this command deletes the files directly, after which restarting Google Chrome will let you reinstall Gmail Offline correctly.


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    /bin/rm -f ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local\ Storage/*google*
    poslfit · 2013-06-14 19:39:12 0

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