returning files uploaded to Cloud from Lightroom Classic

When I opened up LightroomCassic this morning things looked quite different.  A few days ago after I had done the update,  a little notice came up about sycing  and I must've turned it on. There's a little cloud up in the upper right hand corner that I opened and turned sinking off yesterday.   What happened a couple of days ago, looking at my catalog in light room which has over 125,000 images in it, there were a lot of zeros next to the various folders listed. I then opened these folders up in finder and the folders were there but the files were gone. I have a duplicate external hard drive that has a copy of everything from my primary external hard drive but I do not have it catalogued in Lightroom. So when I look at the folders the files were there.  they were missing in the primary drive.  this happened to many of the folders on the primary drive.  This time I resisted the urge to move files via the Finder from the secondary external drive to the primary external drive and then synchronize the folder.   I did go into the Adobe cloud and found a lot of my images there but it was nothing like what I had in my catalog.  That's when I realized that everything was being moved off my laptop into the cloud but it was all quite confusing, that's when I started asking questions about is there a way to fix things.  Now in the Lightroom catalog except for one large group of images in my jewelry folder it seems like many of the images are back and I can open them in photo shop.  I did verify through Finder that there are still missing images but now I'm thinking they might  magically reappear.   What I do find interesting when I look at the external drives on the desktop there is almost a 2 TB difference in size and that hasn't changed from yesterday.   I will send you some screen captures to give you an idea of what I've been looking at.  I think I'm going to shut my computer off and see if any more zeros disappear.