
One of Dropbox's most recent announcements is its new API. (Read our five suggested uses for Dropbox on the Mac for more details about the service.) The application/service won our category for Most Innovative Mac OS X App, and despite Dropbox's foray into the worlds of Windows, Linux, Android, Windows Mobile, and Palm Pre, it remains one of the most useful services for Mac users today. If you don’t see ~/Library folder then follow this post.Dropbox was the major cross-platform app among our 2010 Ars Design Awards. If you don’t have dropbox account you can create Dropbox account here. You may need some extra storage more than 2GB (which Dropbox provides default). Next step is to just start Dropbox Application and you will see your GMail data backed up to Dropbox 🙂Īnd you are all set.

This command will create symlink under folder /Users/ashah/Dropbox/crunchify-mail/email-backup as you see in below image. Ln -s ~/Library/Mail/V6 ~/Dropbox/crunchify-mail/email-backup


You could simply setup Gmail to forward all your mails to another email account and call it a day, for instance. There are numerous ways to backup your Gmail data and deciding which way to go will largely depend on the level of effort you want to put into it. We all know Google backs up regularly and runs some of the biggest redundant data centers in the world. Wouldn’t you feel safer with a backup of your own? The Google gives you tons of space to store your precious email and attachments. Do you have Google App account? Gmail account? Of course you do one of them…
