Can't find my files on external hard drive

My old computer (iBook G4) recently died, and I extracted the Hard drive from the computer. I got an external enclosure for the hard drive and got it up and running, and it shows up on my MacBook Pro.
My problem is that I can't find the files I really want, which were in the "Users" file. I can get to the Users file, and it says that there is 15GB in the folder, but when I open it there only like two files, and I even checked the hidden folders and they simply weren't there. Any ideas?

I'm guessing it's related to Permissions have you tried repairing them on the old volume ?
Did you try running Migration Assistant to see if it can see the content you want to bring over ?

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