GMail “Synchronization Has Stopped Unexpectedly” Error
For a few days, my offline Gmail was refusing to synch up with the server. Every time I would try, I would instantly get an ! in the synch status and it would say “Synchronization has stopped unexpectedly”. Well, yeah. I had figured that part out.
I’m sure there are lots of reasons for this, but you can open the troubleshooting page by going to Settings -> Offline and scrolling down to the link for the Troubleshooting Page.
On my page, I noticed several errors for Failed to get blob down at the bottom of the page under “Recent Errors”.
A BLOB, of course, is a Binary Large Object. I realized at that point that I had unsynchronized messages with images attached (that is to say with BLOBs attached).
I tried moving these to Drafts, but that still didn’t work, so I copied and pasted the contents into a text editor for safe keeping, deleted the messages, cleared the browser cache, closed the browser, reopened, and reloaded GMail.
Success!
I’m sure there are a lot of other things that can cause this, but I didn’t find any good information on this on Google Groups or with a quick search, so hopefully this will help someone or at least give some directions to look in.
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thank you for the suggestions! I think this may have worked for me!
Thanks for the confirmation. With only one data point, I couldn’t be entirely sure they were related and I couldn’t find anything at Google or elsewhere that addressed this.
I tried what you suggested but it didn’t work, tried everything but in the end I had to delete my google gears folder and start everything from scratch.
Bummer Liam. I’m glad you got it sorted, but yeah, Gears seems far from perfect, especially on high-latency connections (I’m often on satellite internet).
Thanks so much for the tip- I was completely lost. I did what you said, and it worked, although I actually had to go into my trash and “delete” forever the un-synched messages (I didn’t need them for later). Thanks!
Leah
Thanks for another confirmation Leah. Obviously it doesn’t work for everyone, since it worked for me “anonymous”, didn’t work for Liam, and half-worked for you. Hopefully your additional tip might help the person!
yes it has helped.