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Fixing the problem with Google Chrome's sync function

I'd always liked the idea of Google's Chrome's ability to sync (and, essentially, back up) bookmarks, preferences and applications across multiple installations of Chrome...but I could never get it to work. The preferences said that everything was backed up, but man...it was so not.

I thought I'd give it another try again, and this time it worked. I don't know if it was just this fix or this combined with a fix in the browser by Google, but here's what I did:
  1. Turned off sync in the Google dashboard
  2. Turned off sync on both installations of Chrome that I wanted to sync (one Mac and one Windows)
  3. On my netbook (Windows), I deleted all the bookmarks I had there and closed Chrome
  4. On my main computer (Mac), I turned sync back on and let it finish.
  5. On my netbook, I turned sync back on and let it finish.
....and that did it. About time, too.

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