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. Note: These instructions apply to Mac OS X 10.2 to 10.5 and won't work if you used the "Delete Immediately" function to delete a user (if this is the case, you may be able to use a third-party file recovery utility to recover the Home folder, which will have the same name as the deleted user account's short name, if there has been limited disk activity since you deleted it).

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