Documents disappeared from computer after turning off iCloud
Hi
I started uploading documents (quite a few thousand of them) from my MacBook to iCloud Drive but then changed my mind. I checked online and it said to stop the upload I should untick the desktop/documents box so I did this and then also unticked iCloud in the settings section.
All was fine but when I started up my computer this morning, everything had disappeared, apart from a Microsoft email folder. I checked iCloud.com - online version - but nothing there either.
I clicked on recently deleted but it said folder was empty.
Everything has gone, thousands of photos, all my website data (I design and manage some of these), all client folder - absolutely everything.
I mistakenly thought iCloud was a backup drive but now from reading can see it isn't, it's a syncing service only.
Does anyone know if I can get these documents back and if so, how. I do have a back up on an external disk but the last back-up was a few weeks ago and I have a number of crucial documents that I've received or created since.
Here's hoping??