Sometimes you may inadvertently perform an Archive and Install installation without preserving users. Or you need to get files from a user’s Home folder whose account you’ve deleted—or you want to “undelete” that user altogether. If you need to recover items in a Home folder, here’s how

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Mac OS X: How to recover a home folder (directory)

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