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Firefox Sync won't sync every data

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I have just finished reinstalling Windows 8 after some serious troubles today.

So i just happened to install Firefox like normally and then enter all the details (correctly)  to Firefox Sync.

Then the Firefox only sync quite a bit of Bookmarks( oh god) , and then a few addons, and that's it.

It missing my very most recently bookmarks and also missing the theme that i applied and god know what else it is missing.
So , i just want to ask, WTH? It works all the time before, i got my login data, i got my recovery key right, and now some of my data just randomly disappear off Firefox Sync sever?
I have just finished reinstalling Windows 8 after some serious troubles today. So i just happened to install Firefox like normally and then enter all the details (correctly) to Firefox Sync. Then the Firefox only sync quite a bit of Bookmarks( oh god) , and then a few addons, and that's it. It missing my very most recently bookmarks and also missing the theme that i applied and god know what else it is missing. So , i just want to ask, WTH? It works all the time before, i got my login data, i got my recovery key right, and now some of my data just randomly disappear off Firefox Sync sever?

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I doubt if your data disappeared from the Sync server, but it may take a while for all your Sync data to make it back into what amounts to a clean installation. Sync wasn't really intended as a backup medium, it works best at synchronizing existing data in bursts of data as that data is added and for adding data on a device that hasn't been connected for a short time.

That said, Mozilla is working on a new generation of Sync which hopefully is more user friendly in many ways.

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i don't know, but luckily enough that i didn't loose too many bookmarks. But this brings a great questions... can Mozilla take a look at the data in terms of kb that the back up severs get? If the new data is significantly smaller than the old one, there would be a change of corrupt data (i assume that was what happened to me) so something like this could be prevented?

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You should always backup your personal data locally yourself or at least on a web servers that is meant for backing up (cloud) to make sure that you won't lose it in case of problems.

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Well, regards everything. Can my data be recovered from the sever somehow? Or it is completely vanished?

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Firefox won't vanish your data automatically....

Try with new SYNC.

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I tried to uninstall Firefox 22 right after that to retry Firefox 21 with new sync, but it didn't work.

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Didn't work mean?

Got connected with firefox sync?

No data's in Firefox Sync server?

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I mean it got the same result. Missing Bookmarks, missing Theme, not what i originally have.