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I set up sync and used typed my email address wrong

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jonathanhon
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To whom it may concern:

I set up my sync account using the email address: <deleted>, however it should have been: <deleted>, note the missing dot between my first name and my last name. Now since I have requested my password it has been sent to the other email address which is not me. Will they have access to all my passwords?

Please help me with this situation

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To whom it may concern: I set up my sync account using the email address: <deleted>, however it should have been: <deleted>, note the missing dot between my first name and my last name. Now since I have requested my password it has been sent to the other email address which is not me. Will they have access to all my passwords? Please help me with this situation --------- Removed email address ~J99

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John99
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That email address may not even exist. They would need to confirm details to set it up. Just go ahead and set it up correctly. I will remove the email address from your post, for privacy reasons, it will only generate spam. This is a public forum, partially indexed by web search engines.

Note it is important not to reuse passwords. Use unique passwords for everything.

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philipp
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Hi, Gmail doesn't care for the dot - whether you are using a.b.c@gmail.com or abc@gmail.com these mails will go to the same account: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313

jonathanhon
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Thank you for your help, however now that i have synced using the email without the dot all my saved logins are missing. I had several hundred

can you please help me?

Kind regards.

John99
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Unfortunately I do not know exactly what may have happened but this does not look good.

Sync is not a cloud backup service, Any data you backup is on your devices e,g, your Desktop Computer and your Laptop or Smartphone.

Sync is additive. If you have different sets of passwords on the phone and computer it will add those additional passwords to the other device. Sync should not deleted data. (It may duplicate and corrupt data occasionaly especially if used to sync bookmarks. bookmarks)

Rather late to say this but you should consider backing up important data independently of Sync.

Are you using two devices ? Have you got the passwords elsewhere either on another Firefox or in some backup you may have made that included Firefox files.

Prior to Windows 10 there was a previous file version restore available from Windows that may have captured old versions of the Firefox Files but normally Windows 10 does not do that.

Sync is not intended for transfering data between an old and a new Desktop, but possibly that is what you dis, if so do you still have the old device ?

philipp said

Hi, Gmail doesn't care for the dot - whether you are using a.b.c@gmail.com or abc@gmail.com these mails will go to the same account: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313

I had not known that before, thanks for the tip Philipp.