I am having problems with my skydrive. When I opened my computer yesterday and went to the skydrive folder on my computer, I noticed that the green check mark beside the document was not present, indicating that my documents were not linked to the cloud. Rather, it seems that they are just files stored on my computer but in the 'sky drive folder'. So I uninstalled and reinstalled skydrive to fix the issue.

When I opened my computer again today, the same issue appeared. I really do not have time to redownload skydrive everyday to ensure my documents are uploaded to the cloud. So rather than just fixing the issue, can you please give me insight into why this is happening and nip the issue in the bud rather than just reinstalling skydrive every time the problem arises? 

The people are microsoft were not able to help me on the phone (after being transferred to three different people). So please help me out.

Thanks.