I'm trying to sync my pc & laptop. It didn't work today. Didn't see buttons on sync options.
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I went around in circles with the steps on the help pages.
I tried to follow the steps on the sync help pages but when I got to the sync preferences page there was a list of things to sync but no "manage account" button. I saw the reference key page in sync options and even printed a reference key on each computer, but I never saw a "change reference key" button.
Is there a way to start over with syncing the 2 computers?
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