{"id":15382,"date":"2011-02-28T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=15382"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:04:01","slug":"how-to-back-up-your-gmail-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-back-up-your-gmail-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Back up your Gmail account"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you use Gmail<\/strong> as your primary email, you might have been worried by last night’s glitch that left almost 0.08% of accounts empty. Fortunately, it’s really easy to back up a Gmail account! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are the three most practical ways to do it<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

1: Enable Offline Mail<\/h3>\n

Click the Gear tab on the top right of the Gmail<\/a><\/strong> interface, choose mail settings and you’ll see a tab called Offline<\/strong>. To turn on Gmail Offline you have to install the Gears Plugin<\/strong><\/a> (standard in Chrome), but you are taken through this simple process as soon as you click Enable<\/strong>.\"\"
\nYou can configure how much and what of your email you want to download, and which folders. Once it’s all downloaded you’ll have offline access from your desktop.<\/p>\n

2: Use a desktop email client.<\/h3>\n

Download Mozilla’s excellent Thunderbird<\/a><\/strong> desktop email client, then go to Gmail settings again and check Enable POP for all mail<\/strong>. Run the Thunderbird installer, and it will ask you for your email address (add your Gmail address here) the first time you start the program – and unless you want to get into any complicated set-up you can then just let Thunderbird download your entire Gmail account. Easy!<\/p>\n

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3: Backup with Hotmail<\/h3>\n

It might be crushingly uncool, but Hotmail<\/strong><\/a> is a useful space-saving way to back up your Gmail. Simply create an account, sign in and click the options question mark on the top right then choose more options<\/strong>. Here you’ll see a link saying Sending\/receiving email from other accounts<\/strong>. This will allow you to add your Gmail account really easily, with no technical knowledge needed, and won’t use any of your hard disk space!\"\"<\/p>\n

There are other apps and methods of backing up your Gmail account, but I think these are the best and simplest solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you use Gmail as your primary email, you might have been worried by last night’s glitch that left almost 0.08% of accounts empty. Fortunately, it’s really easy to back up a Gmail account! Here are the three most practical ways to do it: 1: Enable Offline Mail Click the Gear tab on the top … Continue reading “How to: Back up your Gmail account”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":180905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2339],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-15382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334409,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions\/334409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=15382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}