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sync between 2 laptops: does not seem to work at all

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I first created my FF account on the oldest laptop, then also logged the 2nd (new) on the same account.

There is no option that I can find from the account, to export the selected sync items from one, or to import them onto the other (I need to overwrite the few data there). I could not find such option within FF menu either.


Side issue: at one point, an option was visible to replace the default device names in the account... then when I wanted to do it, that option did not seem to exist any more. Do I have to remove those devices from the account if that was a one-time only option, and how?

I first created my FF account on the oldest laptop, then also logged the 2nd (new) on the same account. There is no option that I can find from the account, to export the selected sync items from one, or to import them onto the other (I need to overwrite the few data there). I could not find such option within FF menu either. Side issue: at one point, an option was visible to replace the default device names in the account... then when I wanted to do it, that option did not seem to exist any more. Do I have to remove those devices from the account if that was a one-time only option, and how?

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Update: side issue solved

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update 2: absolutely furious.

Instead of what I wanted and needed, sync eventually pooled the data from BOTH devices, merged and moved my bookmark folder which I now have to re-organise on my first laptop, then try to re-import on my 2nd laptop. Abolutely NOT what I expected and needed.

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update 3: The worst: seconds after I removed the unwanted data from my 2nd laptop, syncs also deleted them from my 1st laptop, so now I lost ALL the bookmarks from my bookmarks bar, painstakingly organized and filled over the years.

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You should have automatically created backup in the bookmarkbackups folder.

The name of an automatically created JSON bookmarks backup in the bookmarkbackups folder includes a total item count (folders and separators included) and an hash value to prevent saving the same backup more than once. You also see this count in the Restore menu drop-down list.

  • bookmarks-YYYY-MM-DD_<item count>_<hash>.jsonlz4.