My Desktop and Documents folders got lost.

This might sound like duplicated, but it's not.

Today I logged in on my Mac and saw that iCloud was enabled.

I never did that due to some sensitive documents that I had locally.

I disabled it right away and because of that I lost everything. Some documents were more than 20 years old.

I do have a backup, but sync new and old documents will be a pain.

And some recant local files were of legal matter and I don't any copy since the time machine wasn't synched yet.

Since I'm a developer some of my that I didn't push to remote branches yet, is lost too.

Who's paying my lost work?

What about the legal issues that I might have now?

Why does the cloud get's enabled automatically.

I'm not interested on your amazing cloud services.

When I enable the iCloud again the folder structure is back, but are empty.

Is there any chance the the files are still stored locally?