Clearing old onedrive files deleted my local documents file on windows 10

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I was doing a routine file cleanup to keep my SSD from being bloated. Onedrive had mostly files that were either outdated or redundant in my documents file. I had deactivated onedrive years ago since 5 gb is really poor size and google drive already solved most of my cloud needs. What I didnt know is that clearing the files from this completely separated folder would delete my main documents folder with three times as many files in actual use. And since it wasnt sinced to the cloud, those files are permanently lost. I say permanently because my PC stated so as I was clearing 6GB of old junk wh

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