This is why you hear so many scream when we have to hard reset a phone or android. Now that you know you can start keeping stuff synced. And no. No one has recovered from this with unerase tools like we use on a PC.
My tablet just died and I was able to recover some bookmarks by signing into google on my laptop. It appears that these are only the once that I had in desktop bookmarks. I also had a lot of stuff in mobile bookmarks (was never really sure what the difference was) and other bookmarks on there.
Can anybody help please?

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