Vault disappeared please help

What I’m trying to do

I was working on my Thesis vault in obsidian this morning, left the house and my windows laptop went to sleep, came back to obsidian app closed, reopened it and all my work disappeared, the whole vault is not there, even my obsidian account got deleted and I made a new one. only change was that I got a new monitor yesterday not that it matters.

All the research I made for my thesis the past year was on it. help.

Things I have tried

  1. I tried searching for .md files, only found very early trial files when I first tried obsidian, however it says that they are created today. All of these files were on my OneDrive.
  2. I do not remember if the missing vault was local or on onedrive, but most likely it was local since I tend to save my files locally.
  3. I checked recent microsoft updates and the only update today was a “Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus”.
  4. I checked both the local recycle bin and the onedrive trashbin, nothing.
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If the vault was on onedrive (or any other cloud service), you need to make sure that onedrive is setup to keep the file locally (not just download them on demand). Other than that, I have no idea.

thank you I just found it, I saved it on my google drive and accidentally removed my drive from microsoft!

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