iCloud documents not syncing
I have a MacBook Air, iPhone, and iMac. All of them are set up with iCloud to sync documents folder and all the Apple apps (Notebook, Mail, etc). I was working on my MacBook Air during the whole trip. I came home expecting that all of my document work would update automatically on my iMac, but the documents were the old versions. I consulted all of the help pages and they all say to toggle icloud documents on/off, but I didn't want to do that because it says all of the documents will be removed from the computer (see screenshot...I have no idea why the screenshot is appearing 10x actual size...sorry). So I have started comparing the screens on my MacBook Air and iMac and visually/manually entering all of the document changes that I made during the three weeks away. I have three questions: 1) how do I get icloud document syncing working? 2) once I get it working, what will happen to the changes in the documents on my MacBook Air that were changed during my trip? 3) once I get it working, what will happen to the changes in the documents on my iMac that I manually added after my trip? Thank you
MacBook Air, macOS 13.3