Suddenly some document folders are empty

So here's my guess on what happened. When I originally migrated my documents to the new MacBook (using time machine) it seems that the documents folders populated properly until a folder that had some protection on it. Today I manually moved the folder contents from my old MacBook into the empty folders on the new MacBook and I saw that the first folder required me to enter an administrator password to move the contents. I am thinking that the Time Machine migration must have aborted when it hit that situation. So its likely the documents never were there in the first place, and because I rarely look to these folders, I had wrongly assumed they had properly migrated, and suddenly vanished.

Thanks agin for the response.

Thanks

Not using iCloud (but will now). :)

I went back in time machine and see the same issue so it could be that these folders have been empty for a while. I changed to a new MacBook 2 weeks ago and it’s possible the migration of these documents never populated properly (which makes some sense that it was half done)

Good news is I have the old MacBook still and will hope I can manually repopulate these folder.

Appreciate the feedback

Gotcha. Thanks.