I had a ton of pictures in Creative Cloud on my desktop, they have all disappeared??

I did use the browser and checked each of these locations. I called Adobe, and they told me that they deleted all of the files as they were part of a sync change that was recently implemented. They said that they sent emails about this change, but I went through all of my emails and did not see a single one about this change. Do I have any other options to gain access to these files? I had some of them backed up but not all of them. It is crazy to me that they would delete files that seemed stored on my local computer. If I cannot gain access to these files, I will never use adobe ever again.