Files still on hard drive How do I get them back?

I mistakenly deleted all the system files, so I reinstalled OS X, and after it installed, my files were not there, when I click about this Mac, then storage, it says used space 280 GB out of 500 GB. So my files are still on my hard drive but its not on showing on the recent installation. These files are very important because they have all my Xcode projects saved.

Find out what user_id they belong to.
If you do not have an entry in
System preferences > Accounts ...
that uses that user_id, then create one, and make the shortname (which is exactly where the files will be stored) agree completely.

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