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Firefox suggested to reset itself on an old PC. Lost bookmarks on the PC I currently use

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Yesterday, I accessed an old PC I have, not used for some time. Firefox suggested to reset itself as it hadn't been used for some time. I answered "yes". When I opened firefox again in my current PC I saw that several bookmarks had been synced with the old PC bookamarks, so I lost all the recent bookmarks in my new PC. How can I revover them ?

Yesterday, I accessed an old PC I have, not used for some time. Firefox suggested to reset itself as it hadn't been used for some time. I answered "yes". When I opened firefox again in my current PC I saw that several bookmarks had been synced with the old PC bookamarks, so I lost all the recent bookmarks in my new PC. How can I revover them ?

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Hi, first disconnect the old PC from sync: Remove a synced device from your Mozilla account, then you can try this on your current PC: Open bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks (Ctrl+Shift+B) > Import and Backup > Restore, and see if you have a recent backup there.

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Hi, first disconnect the old PC from sync: Remove a synced device from your Mozilla account, then you can try this on your current PC: Open bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks (Ctrl+Shift+B) > Import and Backup > Restore, and see if you have a recent backup there.

If your question is resolved by this or another answer, please help other users by marking the best reply as Solved. Thank you!