anyway, it appears that uninstalling and reinstalling is the only option left, questions on that..

1 - I have 38GB of data synced to skydrive from my surface pro (where the problem is) if i uninstall and reinstall will it need to "re-sync"/ upload download all of this?!? will it break some of the office 365 links?!

2 - I have read about "disconnecting computer from skydrive"before uninstalling on some threads but not others. I cannot do this through the icon settings as I have it connected through my microsoft account (greyed out) but i can from skydrive .com . I cannot work out if I should do this first or not? many different answers on here.

basically I just want to refresh skydrive in the quickest and easiest manor without it uploading all of my files again or losing any. its so frustrating as I am very very careful with my use of this device and it seemed to break for no reason

thanks!