New Sync not working (/questions/1007210)
I did a fresh install of yosemite on my mac mini and on my macbook pro. I installed the latest firefox 33 and I did sign into sync, but nothing is syncing. I had quite a bit of bookmarks and tags saved in sync which was working great between my macbook pro and mac mini just yesterday. How do I get my data back? I thought it was all being stored on a mozilla server? I have the firefox recovery key from when I originally set this up...
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johnkelly3 potentially. The way to tell is if you visit accounts.firefox.com and see if you are asked to login. If so, then you are on the old sync account servers.
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HI johnkelly3, Thank you for referring to the original question. I understand that there is an issue with syncing items in a profile that was part of a Yosemite update. The os update should not remove profile data. Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles
Firefox Sync is not meant to be a backup. However if you attach the previous account to the new install the two devices should merge. Before attempting this, please make a backup of the profile locally.
I ended up going removing FF33 and installing FF24. I was able to sign back into synch and have all my data restored to my FF24. I then upgraded FF24 to FF33. I did this on both of my Mac's. Not sure which Synch I am using now, I guess the older one still?
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johnkelly3 potentially. The way to tell is if you visit accounts.firefox.com and see if you are asked to login. If so, then you are on the old sync account servers.