After turning iCloud Drive on, no more local Documents

I turned on iCloud Drive today, and all my local Documents on my Iphone are gone. Even when turning iCloud Drive off again, they didn't reappear. Any chance to get them back ?

On OS X, don't the entire contents of your iCloud Drive synchronize with the hard drive of your Mac?
How can someone store files on iCloud that do not synchronize to the Mac? I know you can do this (in a way) with iTunes Match, and the forthcoming Photos App.
iCloud is not only iCloud Drive - there are also iCloud Photo Library (Beta), iTunes Match, iMovie Theater.
The paragraph you quoted is referring to the other iCloud services for large media files: music, photos, movies, not iCloud Drive, which is meant for documents - a common storage for all your documents, updated across all devices.
Music files: With iTunes Match, you can store your complete iTunes library in iCloud, after backing it up on an external drive.
Image files: With Cloud Photo Library (Beta) you can keep all original photos in iCloud and only optimised previews on your devices. iCloud Photo Library (Beta) is not yet available on a Mac, but will be released this spring (see: Apple - OS X - Photos Preview)
Videos: iMovie Theater keeps your movies in iCloud and off your devices.
What happens if I have 500GB worth of data in my iCloud Drive and I link a Mac with only 250GB to it?
Don't let it happen. Apple does not explain what will happen in any of the support documents for iCloud Drive:
iCloud Drive FAQ - Apple Support
Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support
From my own experience you will see plenty of cloud symbols for files that will not download to your Mac.
The general idea is, that the bulk of your data are media files, photos, videos, music, that will not use iCloud drive and are not synced to your mac. They will use your paid iCloud storage or iTunes Match storage, however.

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