iCloud Drive ate a lot of my files
iCloud Drive, which I mistakenly thought was a back-up system, ate about 6 months of my recent files. For some reason, it deleted them from my MacBook Pro 2021 hard drive, and from my 2013 MacBook Pro. Not sure when it happened, but Trash is empty. Is there any way to recover them?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.6