I am not able to sync anything , nothing is coming neither bookarks nor passwords nor tabs ????previouslly i had done then it was working
nothing is syncing
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Are you synchronising with a secondary PC or trying to restore your primary PC? Does Sync show any sort of error message (typically a yellow bar at the bottom of the Firefox window, "Sync encountered an error")?
Some days Sync just doesn't seem to work, like Mozilla servers are too busy to handle requests, and other times I need to clear the Sync login details and then re-enter them after restarting the browser. I honestly gave up on FF Sync as dysfunctional; compared to Opera's system the Mozilla/Firefox system is really finicky and unreliable.
I had formatted my pc and then syncing in mozilla, it doesnt show any error it only sync theme not my password, bookmarks ,tab??why
If only some things sync and some things don't (even when you've reselected them and successfully relogged into FF Sync), then the first thing that comes to mind is that the non-syncing data no longer exists. Why or how, I don't know - maybe it failed to sync to the server, maybe it got overwritten - but if you can only get Firefox to fetch some of it now, the rest is as good as gone.
I hope you have physical backups.
Utkarsh2,
Did you have any problem when connecting to Sync after the format?
If so, did you request a new Password for the Sync service?
I dont have any physical backup everthing is selcted while syncing but only themes are syncing?
So did you request a new password for Sync?
I feel @the-edmeister may have something in mind that I'm unfamiliar with.
You didn't answer my questions.
I said
Utkarsh2, Did you have any problem when connecting to Sync after the format? If so, did you request a new Password for the Sync service?
If you happened to change your Sync password - your data would have been wiped from the Sync server - it may be gone. That password is used to encrypt data for the "trip" across the internet to & from the Sync server and while the data is on the Sync server. The exact same encryption key is need when the data returns to a device to decrypt that data. Change the password and the previous "key" is gone, and the new "key" won't decrypt the data - so it's wiped.
The Sync system is predicated upon Sync being used across multiple devices for synchronizing user data so that data is the same on all devices. Using Sync as a backup media for the purpose of reformatting a single device and reinstalling all software including Firefox is not an intended use.