Q: I don't WANT to store all my documents folder on the cloud... That is why they are in a different folder. NOW, I cannot put them back on my Mac!

Having 'upgraded' today, now my MacBookPro has gone into 'hoover-mode' and is working overtime (and over-heat) to upload all my Document-folder to the cloud. STOP! I don't WANT that! I have gone into the iCloud preferences and the relevant box was 'ticked'... (How, I don't know!) and so I unticked it and now it is still behaving like a hovercraft and id not allowing me to regain my lost documents folder from iCloud. Simply enraging!