everything i synced is gone
i have lost everything from my sync after reinstalling windows and reconnecting to my firefox account, i keep pressing sync now and nothing happens, firefox is the only thing i used for saving my passwords and everything, this is a desperate cry for help
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Hi
Thank you for your question about the Firefox Sync service.
It appears from your question, that you are using Firefox Sync as a back up service. This is not what Sync is designed to do. The Firefox Sync service takes a copy of the data you wish to include and transfers it to a second device (typically a mobile device such as a tablet or a telephone) running a copy of Firefox. The storage in between all attached devices is both temporary and fragile and is not stable enough to be (and is not designed as) a reliable backup service.
If you have a copy of your Firefox profile for desktop Firefox, you may be able to recover your bookmarks and other data. Please have a read of this article.
If you have a copy of your data on a mobile version of Firefox, please follow these instructions to connect it to Firefox Sync to copy your data.
All may not be lost, look in your C drive and see if there is a folder named Windows.old? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
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