Recovering information from Firefox Sync

Ok, so here's the thing. I needed to reinstall my computer, so before doing it I set up Sync and synced all my bookmarks and passwords and everything. Now that I've reinstalled everything, I tried to recover all the information from Sync. I connected to my account and entered the key, but nothing happened, none information was recovered. How do I get it back?
I am using OS X.

You can get some data from the backup using:
iPhone Backup Extractor for Windows and Mac
You can also purchase or borrow another iOS device and restore that device from your iPod backup.

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I have a sync account and used to keep sync with firefox server. Now computer got re-installed and want to sync data from firefox sync server. But I am unable to setup as i dont have sync key.

I have a sync account and used to keep sync with Firefox server. Now computer got re-installed(OS) and want to sync data from Firefox sync server. But I am unable to setup as i don't have sync key.
I would like to just sync with Firefox Sync Server with existing account. I can not find any way out for this. please reply me on
[email protected]

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So I have been using iTunes with my iPhone 3GS and now my iPhone 4 to sync with my Outlook for many years now and it has been flawless.
I recently bought a new iPad and started syncing it as well.
Now as of late, after every 2 or 3 syncs, I get an error from iTunes displaying the Conflict Resolver and it says there are 42 sync conflicts.
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Unable to retrieve conflict information from the sync server.
Please try again the next time the conflict resolver window is presented.
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I have tried the following:
1) Rest Sync History on all devices
2) I have had iTunes replace all the contacts on the iPad from iTunes
3) I have changed the conflict resolver to only notify when 50% of the data will be changed
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Here is the solution.
Rationale: You want to be able to have the dates on your items (notes, contacts) on your iphone to be the same as on outlook. This will eliminate any sync conflicts. You will also notice that if you modify something on the iphone and sync, you will lose the modification you made.
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I got this advice from Gator5000e on Apple Supposrt Communities:
I use Windows 7 so the path to find this file
might be different under a different OS.
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Thank you so much for tolerating the confusion I created for myself. YEA
About the "enter email address" ... gee, how did I think Firefox was going to be able to communicate with me?
So... I go to the AOL mailbox, sign in as usual, the little box is coming down, and I click on save ... ah ha
If I am on another computer, I will open Firefox ... enter the master password ... and move on as usual? ... because all this is on Firefox servers.
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