User profile taking 26GB space, can't see any files

A friend of mine gave me her laptop to retrieve her data as the MacOS got corrupt and I think everything broke on the partition map. Once I coaxed the drive to mount after many runs of disk repair I got to the user folder and it had the no biggie, just copy and redo permissions right?
Copied the user folder to my drive:
ran chmod -Rf 755 26GBEmptyUserFolder/
ran chown tonystark:staff -R 26GBEmptyUserFolder/ (just in case for anything weird)
After that the went away the folder is completely empty to the GUI and CLI
Running rsync on the user folder gives me this cryptic sparse file list instead of files inside the user folder.
Users/.Hawkeye/Hawkeye.sparsebundle/token
               122880 100%    6.51MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#4, to-check=3195/3202)
Users/.Hawkeye/Hawkeye.sparsebundle/bands/0
          8388608 100%    1.26MB/s    0:00:06 (xfer#5, to-check=3193/3202)
Users/.Hawkeye/Hawkete.sparsebundle/bands/290
     8388608 100%    1.60MB/s    0:00:05 (xfer#127, to-check=3071/3202)
What is going on? Is the home folder encrypted?

You could have a bad install. There's a thread/threads around here talking about the viewer being all white due to a bad install of the program or a corrupt user. I've also heard it manifest with a black screen instead of white.
Quickest thing to check. Create a new user account. Log in there, and open Motion. If Motion opens fine, then you have a problem with your normal user account.
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