How do I make sure that all my work on my time machine backup can be retrieved?

What do I do if I have migrated my imac with my time machine's last back up after reinstalling the system and I cannot find all my work files??

You don't provide much information but my guess is you used Migration Assistant, if so change your user account and log into the new user account created when you used MA. Your files will be there, you can move them using the instructions in Transferring files from one User Account to another

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