Sync Settings between 2 computers in Photoshop

Why when I sync my settings for Photoshop on one machine do my actions etc not appear on my second machine when I then sync settings on there?  What am I doing wrong?

Hello, are you correctly logged on both machines? Is Photoshop up to date to 14.2?
Do you get an error message? Does the action bear the same names on both machines?

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