Lost nearly all of my passwords
Hello, this is for Firefox on Android. I accidentally cleared all of my data recently and lost everything, fortunately I always kept my sync settings up to date, but to my dismay, when syncing passwords, only a handful of them showed up. I'm at a loss at what to do, I had a lot of important login information on there that I have no way of getting back. Some of them were e-mail address passwords that I'd need to even get any password reset e-mails. Is there anything I can do? Thank you in advance.
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Apologies, I can't find an edit option. It appears the logins are all from my mother's computer for some reason, I'm not sure how that happened, and I haven't used Firefox on PC in ages. I just wanted it to sync with the Android data which is what I've been using.
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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.
Ahh, that makes sense, my mistake, I should have figured. Thanks for the heads up. Yeah, I'll see if I can find an old copy of my data and go from there. This can be closed now or whatever.
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