Great, so you've managed to upload all of your Word and Excel documents to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. But now that your hard drive's crashed, you want to download all of those files again. There's got to be a better way than downloading them one by one, right?

While Google gives you a way to save a group of files as HTML documents, one user decided he could do better and created a batch download script. The solution requires Firefox, Greasemonkey, and a download manager like DownThemAll.

Then you install a script that will run in your Google Docs control panel. You can download every document in the All, Active, Starred, Spreadsheets, or Documents views. You can also download every file with a particular label. Just choose what format you want to save the files in and you'll be presented with a list of links. Now you can use your download manager to save each file listed on the page.

[via Google Operating System]