Files don't appear on idisk

I put files in my idisk at work and sometimes they take days to show up on my idisk at home. Standard Word files and csv files. Sometimes they show up right away. Any thoughts?
I have plenty of storage, the computers are set to sync together, I ran disk utilities, restarted, etc.

This is the iSync forum - the iDisk forum is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=963

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