Lightroom in permanent sync mode; says it is syncing 242 photos but nothing changes

I have the latest version of Lightroom (3.3)  I also recently upgraded my storage capacity. Now I seem to be unable to sync the last group of photos I uploaded.  I also tried to store the originals on a separate hard drive.  Even though I reset my Preferences to the default, every time I open Lightroom it wants to save photos to my hard drive, and won't sync the new ones with the Cloud.  Unsynced photos are pixilated and won't open in Photoshop.  Help!  What do I do?  I am using a Surface Pro 4 (i7).