the problem is that skydrive on my mac is where I do most of my work.  Then I take my laptop somewhere and try to access my documents only to find that the latest version or new documents I have created are not updated on skydrive. This is not a sync problem to my laptop - the files do not exist on the web.

Looking through the error log files, I see some references to proxy name errors and I wondered about my VPN.  On the mac, I use a VPN some of the time, but i will disconnect and use the VPN service on the laptop.  Anyway, I close skydrive on the mac, and restart it and now the file has synced.  

Is the VPN causing skydrive to get confused for syncing, or is skydrive getting stuck for some other reason?

btw, why force someone to select a 'version' when posting a question?  I use a mix of mac & PC, so what 'version' should I select?