Yesterday was quite a day. I was opening windows right and left in Chrome, one after another.
Then it happened. Again.
Gmail has a horrible bug, that once it's out of memory, it just starts destroying Drafts files.
Old, saved notes, I keep in Gmail.
Gone.
I would hit the Compose button, and up comes a bad Draft window. Corrupted layout. OOPS!
Start closing browser windows, refresh Gmail, mostly it goes away immediately.
Sometimes I reboot to be sure...
I've been living with this bug for several months now, and figured they would find and fix it quickly.
NEVER DID.
And if this bug is active, then IF you OPEN a saved DRAFT file, it's gone! Contents WIPED!
Data corruption, from Google?
I've been doing this for over 10 years, and until recently, it was remarkably useful and reliable!
IN FACT, Steve Jobs recommended such, in an interview I read 20 years ago, and I've been using email drafts as my personal DB since that time.
Here's the feature list:
a) Electronically searchable for title and contents
b) Dated entries
c) Auto-saved (I thought, sheesh!) NO SAVE BUTTON
d) Cloud based, never have to worry about backing up (I thought...)
e) Reliable - for over 10 years, I thought I had this issue for my life solved.
f) Browse existing notes titles, via date, title search, etc
I would tell anyone that listened, take notes, and use Gmail!
People just like me, can't remember their name half the time, but if I write it down, it's mine forever.
Obviously, I need to export my data OFF of gmail and try something else, but what?
(Don't get me started, my first attempt at exporting 10+ years of gmail off google.com, has not worked so far, as they promise to email me when the process has completed, and my archive files are ready, and 24 hours later, no email..
HELP!
What to do?
I'm stuck. Don't know what app to use (local, with cloud backups I think).
Don't know how to get Google to give me my data either, or so it seems.
I know much above, sounds like a file system, but Gmail is such a great search and browsing experience, once I'm in my Drafts folder; it's really hard to give it up.
Suggestions right now, would be helpful.
Thanks so much ;-)
