Deleted user account saved file doesn't contain latest files

Someone I know deleted one of the users accounts on their iMac. Not the admin account. When doing this there was an option to save the account files. That was done. After rebooting to the 1 account that was left, the admin account they opened the .dmg saved user file from the deleted account. But that file did not include any of the new files over the past few months like files on the desktop or iphoto stuff. The desktop files that were saved were from months ago and everything else was old.
Any ideas what happened to all the current files from that account?
thx
lenn

Hi Nicci D,
Welcome To Adobe Forums.
Can you please let me know the path detail for "Publish At" and "Project Cache"that you see under general settings options (inside preferences) as shown in the image below:
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