How to make Desktop skydrive sync nicely with W8.1 Skydrive

Here's the situation:

I'm a university student that uses a Windows 7 laptop for notetaking, and a Windows 8.1 custom build for everything else.

Naturally, the cloud lends itself wonderfully to this endeavour, but there's a small hiccup - the two do not seem to be syncing nicely.

Anything I overwrite or change on the laptop is simply synced as a duplicate file vs. the changes along being synced as I would prefer.

Does anybody know how to configure these two to play nicely, or am I out of luck?

As an example:

W7: HIST 305 - French Revolution #1

W8.1: HIST 305 - French Revolution #1

Say, we haven't finished the lecture and I need to continue it later:

W7: HIST 305 - French Revolution #1 (Save to same filename)

End result:

W8.1: HIST 305 - French Revolution #1-1

or sometimes it says

HIST 305 - French Revolution #1 - LTDesktop

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