I've permanently deleted an important email from Gmail Trash folder. And as I understand it, there is no way to recover the email from inside the Gmail application.
But, I figured that my browser (Chrome) might still have the email text in the cache.
I've looked in c:\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache
but I can't find it there. Is that because the email content in Gmail is retrieved using AJAX?
Anyhow, I tried typing in about:cache
in Chrome but it is hard to understand what is actually showing up. Does it show AJAX retrieved data? Does Chrome saves AJAX retrieved data at all?
Question: Is there any way to retrieve the email body text again?
When an email is read within your browser none of the content is downloaded to your computer
— nothing further from the truth; everything is downloaded to your computer. What you are referring to is the content of a form (writing an email), which is not downloaded from a server, but produced locally. – Alex Feb 27 '13 at 7:21