So if you have the two-step verification enabled for your [...]]]> Recently I got a problem report fro ma Gmail Keeper user who want to backup his email and labels with Gmail Keeper, he’s having problem to get Gmail Keeper work. After some investigation he found that that’s because he have the gmail two-step verification enabled.

So if you have the two-step verification enabled for your Gmail account, you will need to generate an ‘application-sepcfic password’ for Gmail Keeper in order to let it access your Gmail account via the IMAP protocol.

Detailed instructions by Google here.

But, previously,  long labels are not displayed very nice in Gmail (screenshot taken from the official Gmail blog):

But now things are getting better, long Gmail labels will be shortened when displaying in the conversations view in [...]]]> Do you have long labels in Gmail? I do, because I use the ‘nested label‘ feature in Gmail.

But, previously,  long labels are not displayed very nice in Gmail (screenshot taken from the official Gmail blog):

But now things are getting better, long Gmail labels will be shortened when displaying in the conversations view in Gmail:

The Gmail team is awesome!

Well, the answer is YES, since I have specifically tested Gmail Keeper against such situation. If you found a Gmail label that can’t be backed up [...]]]> I got an email from Gmail user who’s concerned about Gmail Keeper’s ability of handling strange Gmail labels – labels that are containing irregular characters, such as /\~*, etc.

Well, the answer is YES, since I have specifically tested Gmail Keeper against such situation. If you found a Gmail label that can’t be backed up by Gmail Keeper, let me know.

This screenshot shows in the backup report window how strange labels were handled.

And this one shows how the strange Gmail labels are stored in the backup archive, viewing in 7-zip:

However, while this gmail backup software does the Gmail backup work quite well already,  itself hasn’t been updated for a while.

And we need a more complete local backup solution for the bunch of Google service, so [...]]]> Gmail Keeper – the email and label backup tool dedicated for Gmail,  recently has drawn more and more interests.

However, while this gmail backup software does the Gmail backup work quite well already,  itself hasn’t been updated for a while.

And we need a more complete local backup solution for the bunch of Google service, so here what you might be interested in, is the upcoming features for Gmail Keeper:

The new development plan for Gmail Keeper

• View and search downloaded emails.
  Currently, the downloaded emails are stored as eml files being compressed in the zip archives, so you’ll need a EML file viewer to read them, and you’ll need an archiver program to read the zip files. 

  Why not include a viewer like the Gmail web for viewing and searching the downloaded emails and labels? All after all, Gmail’s tag-based interface is what we are familiar with and in favor of.

• Backup Google calendar and contacts.
  Most of the time, our Gmail contacts, as well as calendars, are as important as our emails, why shouldn’t Gmail Keeper also backup these data?!

Stay turned, and Gmail Keeper will become:

Your all-in-one universal cloud data backup tool for Windows!

And you might want to subscribe the software newsletter to get informed.

Once this new ‘lab’ is turned on, three labels will be automatically added to your Gmail account:

And Gmail to intellectually check each email and apply these labels, base on the source. for example:

They lost all their emails in Gmail. Google is working on the data restore, but so far over 5 days already now, Gmail is still not back for everyone.

Google [...]]]> The recent Gmail data loss

As many of your might already know that, recently Gmail server had a problem that affected approximately 150,000 Gmail users.

They lost all their emails in Gmail. Google is working on the data restore, but so far over 5 days already now, Gmail is still not back for everyone.

Google might will be able to restore all the emails for everyone in the end, but it’s still horrific, isn’t it?

So,

You should have local backup of your cloud data, Gmail included

Cloud service is very convenient, and has been very common and popular nowadays.

And most of the time, your data is safe in the cloud, but not when the cloud service is having a glitch.

So, you should backup your cloud data, before it’s too late. And IMHO, have a local copy of your online data is the best way.

And that’s why I have developed Gmail Keeper for backing up Gmail and Google Apps emails and labels.

The good news is that, the payment processor has fixed the problem and it’s up again now!

I’m sorry for the inconveniences caused, and people who want to [...]]]> There was glitch in the past hours with the checkout page of Gmail Keeper – the handy email and label backup software for Gmail and Google apps.

The good news is that, the payment processor has fixed the problem and it’s up again now!

I’m sorry for the inconveniences caused, and people who want to buy this Gmail backup and Google Apps backup tool can try again now!

So how to solve this problem? Please download [...]]]> You might have a great amount of emails in your Gmail or Google Apps account, and that will take Gmail Keeper a lot of time to run your backup job, and during the email backup process if your computer is put to sleep your backup might fail.

So how to solve this problem? Please download this Insomnia program from Microsoft, and run it when your email and label backup jobs are running, it will prevent your PC from going to sleep.

Review at lifehacker.com