"Documents in the Cloud" vs iCloud---lost docs

I put in a new SSD and upgraded my MBP to Yosemite. All good---except some docs I had written using Text Editor are now somehow just gone. Evidently these were saved to Documents in the Cloud, which is now just gone...??
What has Apple done with my docs that were saved in Mountain Lion to (what it called anyway) the Cloud?
In Snow Leopard, my last OS, my Text Edit offered an option to save and open docs either to/from On This Mac, or onto Cloud. Some I had saved to Cloud, they are now in some unknown domain of cyberspace, or annihilated.
Apple says iCloud Drive now doesn't offer saving of text docs written in Text Edit. The Text Edit app used to offer saving/opening docs from what it called "Cloud"---evidently that was Apple's Documents in the Cloud, which is now deprecated---?
Apple told me that "the docs might be saved in Pages format" on iCloud Drive, but I thought I would inquire here if anyone had any experience with this, it looks like once you upgrade to iCloud Drive there's no going back, so I'm afraid to upgrade and then find the docs still aren't there and have been annihilated.
How to find my previous Documents in the Cloud folder, now that I'm on Yosemite with a new hard drive? I tried searching the old hard drive for .txt docs, it doesn't seem to see them. I have not searched Time Machine, but if I can't find the .txt files on the old hard drive, how would I find them in Time Machine?
I was a fool not to save the Documents in the Cloud docs separately---hoping someone can help me figure out if they still exist.
John in Houston

Documents stored in iWork (e.g. Pages docs) on icloud also have a copy stored locally. When you restored from a TM backup, you got back the old iwork files. Whether viewing the older files has put those copies in icloud, in place of the new ones, I'm not sure. But if you log into icloud.com and go to the iwork page, you'll find those files there. You can then download them to the mac. Whether they will be the recent, new versions or the old versions, I don't know.

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.I just can't get it to work in reverse. What I mean is when I make changes on my imac or MacBook Pro the changes do not appear automatically on the iOS devices.
Try this...
Open System Preferences > iCloud
Deselect the box next to: Documents & Data then reselect it.
On the iOS devices, tap Settings > iCloud
Switch Documents & Data off then back on.
Give it a minute or two for edits to sync between your Macs and iOS devices.

"Documents in the Cloud" vs iCloud---lost docs

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