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Every time I do a fresh install, Google Chrome asks me for my passphrase. Have searched high and low in Google's help forum and have yet to receive or find any form of response.

When I do a fresh install, if I try to enter the passphrase (with all possible passwords i can recall) nothing works and I can't recover my extensions, bookmarks etc.

On the other hand, if I wait a bit, everything falls to place. I close that window asking for passphrase and all my extensions, bookmarks are back.

The failure to enter a proper passphrase code gets me a message to change my passphrase in my account settings. Who knows where that is! No one at Google's forum seems to know anything about this "passphrase".

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Paraphrase? Don't you mean passphrase? – Wuffers Jun 21 '11 at 14:45
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The passphrase ("paraphrase") will be your Google account password. If you've changed your Google account password after setting up sync & encryption, the passphrase will still be the old password

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Sathya, you are correct. I should have wrote passphrase. – danielson Jun 23 '11 at 12:19
Oops, didn't know "enter" makes you post. Anyway, i changed my p.w., saved it, then changed it back to same. So in theory, it should be the same as you said but it's still asking me for a passphrase. I'll try again and wait 24 hours to see what happens. – danielson Jun 23 '11 at 12:21
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my guess is... you're looking for a passphrase, not a paraphrase. This is for the sync function - you can reset it at your google dashboard.

More information here

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In sync options if you just select the bookmarks and click OK even you didn't write the passphrase it brings the bookmarks.

My old password or any other possible password was't the passphrase... I also don't remember when I set this passphrase thing.

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All I know is that it was not my Google Account password. I think you set it the first time you sync. – slhck Sep 30 '11 at 6:57
That may be a wiser thing to do but for me, my password serves the purpose just fine at this time. – danielson Oct 9 '11 at 14:02
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