This had me scratching my head for a few minutes today, so I thought about sharing it here, and maybe gain some search engines traffic ;)

Somehow I managed to corrupt my Google Reader Google Gears database.

Whenever I opened Google reader, allowing Gears to kick in, I had the following 2 errors in the JS console (ok this is not the default console, it’s Firebug, I’ll talk about it in another post). Since I didn’t really care about the content, I wanted to reset the google gears database.

Google Gears errors

After removing and reinstalling Google Gears, without much success, I figured that that wouldn’t reset the database itself.

I googled for the documentation. The DB, on MacOSX, resides in Users/<username>/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/{profile}.default/Google Gears for Firefox

HERE the location of the files for other operating systems.

Went there, and simply deleted the whole directory named google.com. Then I reloaded Google Reader, and it created a new DB. Simple as that.

I hope this was helpful.

Stay tuned, more to come.

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