Hi nirgrahamuk,
WOW- I think they actually might be in the trash. Oddly, when I looked before, nothing appears in documents, desktop, or downloads. But if I look up a specific word that I remember I named an old document, it appears.
It seems I can only find the files if I search for them directly? The only problem is, I can't remember everything I had on my desktop. Do you know if there is a better way to retrieve everthing?