How do I solve "An error occurred activating Gears. Please try again later." with Google Docs?

Posted by Nick Bolton on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Nick Bolton
Published on 2010-03-28T11:45:42Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 11:53 UTC
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When clicking Offline on Google Docs, it gives me the option to allow Google Docs access to Gears; but when I allow access it says:

An error occurred activating Gears. Please try again later.

I've tried:

Resetting my browser cache,
deleting the application from gears,
and also reinstalling Chrome.

None of these solve the problem however. Any ideas?

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