Hey everyone,

I haven't played skyrim in over a week, so i have not yet downloaded the 1.5 update... However, when i clicked on skyrim from my steam icon, it keeps popping up with

Steam was unable to sync your files with the steam cloud

It is also saying that i may lose my data... whats going on? isnt the update supposed to install automatically, or do i need to do it manually? if so, how?

Steam Cloud refers to your saves. You'd be better off backing up the saves on your PC, disabling Steam Cloud then trying to update again.