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Has anyone discovered where/how offline Google Documents are stored when using Google Drive in Chrome? They must be stored locally but where?
Have tried the browser cache etc but can't see it unless I'm missing something very obvious!
To clarify, the file that is stored within 'My Documents/Google Drive' is a text file with a URL, what I am looking for is where the file that the URL points to is held when in offline mode.
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Further, it may interest you, the location where Google Drive stores offline docs in Android's file system. Thanks for the tip! A folder inside it is named "files\pinned_docs_files_do_not_edit" and the folders within are long random strings with actual files inside them.
Open the Google Docs, Sheets or Slides Home screen. On the file that you want to use offline, click More. . Click Available offline.
All content in Google Drive is stored in one of these three defined spaces: drive , appDataFolder , and photos . Drive space - The drive space includes all user-visible files created or stored in Google Drive. PDFs, Google Docs, Sheets, and slides, and any other content the user uploads, is located in the drive space.
It turns out the offline documents are stored in the HTML5 FileSystem.
The Chrome FileSystem storage is located here on my Windows 7 machine:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\File System I added a number of large images to a document with the Chrome "Offline Docs" enabled and was able to see the FileSystem storage directory grow appropriately.
I then used the HTML5 FileSystem Explorer extension for Chrome to view the file structure of an offline document and was able to confirm that the images were, indeed being retrieved from the HTML5 FileSystem when Chrome was offline. See screenshot:
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