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

Posted on Mar 18, 2022 12:19 PM

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Posted on Mar 18, 2022 12:28 PM

No.. If you delete files, they are deleted on all connected devices. If you erase those, or it's been more than 30 days, trash is emptied.

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