I don't quite know how to explain this.
My phone was upgraded, and I set up the Firefox mobile to sync, and now my desktop install has undergone some changes I tried to … (閱讀更多)
I don't quite know how to explain this.
My phone was upgraded, and I set up the Firefox mobile to sync, and now my desktop install has undergone some changes I tried to avoid, and I want to know if there s a way to reverse it, or avoid it in the future.
Previously, I posed a question about which device/install takes precedence when sync is enabled, because one side, generally my desktop, ends up suffering negative changes, which results in loss of information, i.e. history, addon settings reset to default, remembered logins no longer remembered, etc.
For these reasons, under typical circumstances, I do not enable sync on my desktop, but in order to have Firefox mobile equipped with the latest sessions, etc., I thought I could solve the desktop problem by backing up of my current profile to a different location, after which I could log in to sync, let it do it's job, and then return to my original profile, which is not set up to sync, and it would be as I left it.
But, that was not he case, and I suffered the loss of all but the last seven days of history, and all the other changes I listed above.
So now, not only do I have to set up all apps on the new phone, but on my desktop as well. Extremely frustrating.
In my experience, in some ways, sync acts more like a backup program, that deletes whatever is in the destination that is not in the source. I'm my mind, syncing should have an option to go in only "one direction", in this case, from my desktop to my mobile, not which one is the latest, which seem to be happening here.
There should also be an option to 'combine the data from the two sides.
I'd really like to get some feedback on the this. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. If so, please help me deal with this.