"If you would like to force a refresh, please switch to a public Steam profile."

That happened to me the other day. I waited 10 minutes and tried again and it worked. I've never had a private profile.

Happens every now and then for me. Usually fixes itself.

No, you are not the only one with that problem.

Come on, a quick search of sync brings up a load of results. Problem is thought to be on Steam Community's side, like others have said just keep trying and it'll work eventually.

When you manage to click the green sync button, and if it gives you the error again - press f5 and your browser will ask if you want to resend data - click yes. Repeat this step until you succeed.

I set mine to private and then back to public and saved in between. Fixed it immediately.

the force is strong with this one

and yes the sync is error lately

Interesting, I've never had a problem with sync, but my profile's always been set to public.

It's not that it can't sync, it's that it won't let you go anywhere on the site without redirecting you to the sync page. My last breakdown lasted 3h, and it wouldn't even let me see who won my giveaway.

I can't even get the button to show up :(

Not working for me too

Set your profile to public, log out of SG, log out of Steam on your browser (not the client), log back into everything.

Seriously, that works. Had a pretty similar sounding error when trying to access TF2 Outpost the other day for the first time and did all that and voila it worked for me.

EDIT: :( Just checked for myself, get the same error here and my log out, log in method didn't work :(
TF2 Outpost just said 'This inventory is private' or something along those lines >:| which I thought would be closely related to the SG error.

Most of the time synch doesn't work when you have a game running on steam.

Again, my profile is very much public!

By far the most frustrating thing is, that it doesn't let me try again. It just claims that my account isn't public which is absolutely not true.

well this styncs

Me too

"If you would like to a force a search, please type in the damn search field in the upper right"

I swear the support peeps need to toss around the banhammer more.

This usually happens when SteamCommunity is down or glitching up.

Yep, same issue here.