ACCIDENTALLY DELETED USER-  want to get documents back....

If anyone can help, I was working on my daughter's old imac- I wanted to remove her brother as a user as he went away to college and wanted to clean up the machine; I deleted him as a user (she is the administrator) and later found that she had several important documents in his DOCUMENTS folder- I am running the latest TIGER on an old 400MGHZ G3- any way to retrieve these documents? Thanks loads. Ger

In general, no - you can't get files back.
There is an article on how to do this if the files are not truly deleted - look here...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302150
If you really deleted all files and didn't save a copy - you will probably have to send the drive out to a forensic recovery service. You should shut down and not use the mac for anything if you want to try to recover things that were truly deleted (trash emptied or the program has unlinked the directory entries that pointed to the files in question) - each moment the computer changes data on disk it will make it less likely the "deleted files" remain intact on the disk.

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