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Unable to transition to new Synch

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I am in the process of moving to a new hard drive after mine died. I have my firefox Synch pass code thingy however no where to add it. What can I do? This is REALLY Annoying me to hell.

Can anyone help? I obviously cant un-sync the old one so... what do I do?

I am in the process of moving to a new hard drive after mine died. I have my firefox Synch pass code thingy however no where to add it. What can I do? This is REALLY Annoying me to hell. Can anyone help? I obviously cant un-sync the old one so... what do I do?

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The new Sync in entirely separate from the old Sync version and uses different servers, so if you want to retrieve or otherwise access data from an old Sync account then you will have to install an older Firefox version and then update Firefox again to the 29.0.1 version.

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The old Sync (one with the passcode) has been discontinued and reworked into Firefox 29. You have to upgrade your Sync account to use the new Sync system. Use the link below to do that.

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Last time I checked I cant unlink it or log in to unlink it. Drive its on is not working so how do I go about it that way without the passcode. I'd really like to recover it and upgrade it. This is a new comp so trying to synch it on here to get all my old things from my sync back but cant if I cant unsync the old and follow those steps.. Been trying to figure this out to get all my links back.

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You need to install an older Firefox 28 version if you need access to data stored with the old Sync version.

After you have your data then you can update to Firefox 29.0.1

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I had that on my old drive when it updated to 29.0.1

I created the E-mail I used for the old Sync.

The new sync Account I created is also with the same E-mail..

Do I need to downgrade or something unsync and than do it that way? This is rather frustrating most likely because i'm taking a bunch of prescriptions so my concentration is shot to hell >.<

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The new Sync in entirely separate from the old Sync version and uses different servers, so if you want to retrieve or otherwise access data from an old Sync account then you will have to install an older Firefox version and then update Firefox again to the 29.0.1 version.