[READ FIRST] Saves, CC/Mods or Library items disappeared? iCloud issues

So I decided to get back into the Sims randomly yesterday after not playing for years...so I had to do the update Origin to EA, no big deal, got it all up and running perfectly fine! I started a new game, made my sims, started a world and played for a solid 4 hours. I saved EVERYTHING. And triple checked it to make sure I wasn't going to lose anything (because I hadn't played in so long, wasn't sure I was doing it right, ya know.) I get to the main screen, shows the loaded save, all good. Closed the sims and EA, good night...Go to get on again today- GONE. It was like I'd never gotten on at all...It had me reclaim my log in prize (or whatever that is) and then showed "New Game" but nothing about loading up a save. Literally NO option for it. So I start scrambling, looking for any way to get it to work and somehow my sims I made yesterday are still in my library, but this save is NOWHERE to be found. So I said alright, fine, I'll start over, must've done something wrong. I load in the sims I used yesterday, start my game and put in hours worth of work into a new game (probably 8 or 9 hours). I go to grab some dinner, save game, made sure it was saved, quadruple checked. Looked at the main screen, *it is there*, I load it back up- everything's fine. So I resave again, knowing all is well, close Sims, close EA, go to dinner. Now here I am, post-dinner, load EA and Sims back up and ONCE AGAIN- load game, resume game, whatever it is- is GONE and the only option is New Game...Y'all what is going on? 

EDIT: Ok, so, after some long winded trouble shooting I found my saves folder wasn't in the right spot- cool, that works now- however, all it pulled up was my saves from 2019 (aka the last time I played sims.) Despite my saves from yesterday being in the folder- they refuse to show up. I even went as far as to trash all my old files in hopes my newer ones would show but they won't. Help!!