All iCloud bookmarks disappeared on all my devices

Recently I found out that all my favorites list on my PC disappeared. I didn't bother since they are fusion with my iCloud bookmark list and I thought it was a simple network failure. However, I noticed later that all my bookmarks on all my devices also disappeared. I haven't been able to find a back up to restore them, at least on one of my computers (Macbook Pro, Macbook Air (both on Yosemite), iPad, iPhone... ). I haven't been able to find a copy of the Bookmarks.plist on Time machine. How to recover them? Why did they get deleted?
IOS 8.3, OSX Yosemite 10.10.2

Bookmark syncing is a little unpredictable at present.
You would be best exporting bookmarks to your desktop on your Mac, turning bookmark syncing on on all your devices and then deleting all your bookmarks from all your devices. Leave things alone for a while and later check that each device still has no bookmarks. Once satisfied that all your devices have no bookmarks, re-import the bookmarks on your Mac and allow them to sync with all your other devices.

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I put all read emails to trash on samsung, ipad and iphone but keep on imac and wish to retain there for reference. All other accounts remain but icloud emails disappear. No devices say to delete from server.
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