Help! Accidentally, I dragged iCloud desktop and he lost!

Hello

I recently moved almost ALL my files to iCloud... and today I'm afraid, I took the iCloud icon in the Finder and dragged to the desktop, thinking he would become available as an icon there, while he just disappeared in a nice little animation of a cloud of smoke!

I just lost all my files?

Can I restore it?

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer...

Choose Preferences from the Finder menu, click on the tab of the sidebar and check the box for her.

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