Disappearing documents...

Yes, the iCloud Drive> Desktop and Documents box is checked. I had all my work from my masters program organized in several files. I was running into available storage space issues and I'm pretty sure mac was taking them off to make space. I since found several old iPhone back ups that took up a ton of space and removed them so there is plenty of room now. However, I can't find a bunch of documents that I thought would be in the cloud. I didn't delete them or remove them they just disappeared and are not showing up on the iCloud drive. WTH?

Hey there,

Thanks for trying to help. I think I'm just kind of screwed. The missing items are not on my Mac or apparently on my iCloud. My mac removed them to create more space, but then didn't upload them to the cloud. This was my coursework for a master's degree that I've been in for the last 2 years. It appears to have saved the PowerPoint and Excel files, but deleted most of my Word documents to make space. And it didn't put them in my iCloud. I didn't back them up because I thought that was why I what I was paying for Apple's iCloud service. There's a ton of space there, but the documents are just gone. Anyway, I doubt you need to hear a random stranger tell you how furious they are with Mac software. Hopefully, I can recover them from the school.

Thanks for trying....

I did set up time machine years ago and packed up my Mac to a G-Drive with that. I stopped doing this a couple years ago because I switched to a family iCloud storage plan with a couple gigs and I thought that to be well enough. I'm of course planning on going back to backing up this way now, but it doesn’t bring back what I lost.