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?
Best Answer
I don't know how Gmail operates in the browser, buy I assume it's a mix of HTML and Javascript. Some of that may have been cached at some time (and it's not at all sure that that included your mail text). Depending on your OS, if you remember unique keywords from that mail, you could try a search through all files in the cache directory and a search through free disk space with a file recovery tool (Google e.g. "search through erased file space" to find some). Your chances are slim, and any disk writes that have occured/are occurring on the disk make them even smaller, so boot that machine from a CD.