You would not need to be able to edit the offline file. Instead it could still b...

		StefanPatelski on Oct 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because o... You would not need to be able to edit the offline file. Instead it could still be just a link to the online version of the file, like it is now. But additionally it could contain the actual data that can be imported back to Google servers when it is accidentially deleted from the server.

I was replying to the part where "even if the files are local" i.e. not on the net.