Uninstaling anaconda deleted entire file system- can i recover it? - anaconda

I was trying to install tensorflow, but it said it was already installed in anaconda, and I haven't been using anaconda navigator at all. I had installed anaconda a while ago, but I deleted it a while ago so wasn't sure why it was still there, guess I didn't delete it correctly. So I uninstalled it, and my entire Documents was gone on my computer. My theory is that the whole time I was in the anaconda virtualenv and didn't realize, so when I uninstalled it and all of it's dependencies it deleted my whole file system. Does anyone know how I could recover it?
Please explain how to fix this as you would explain to a 6month old child.
I tried redownloading anaconda hoping it would come back but it didn't. I don't mind using anaconda from here on forward but mainly just want my files back.

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