How to recover a file i accidently deleted on OS X snow leopard?

I added a file on the right side of my dock, when opening it the mouse slipped and it got deleted accidentally and i looked in SPOTLIGHT and FINDER and MACINTOSH HD and couldnt find anything... this was the tip given to me:
'Open a Finder window. Look at the left side. Click once on "Macintosh HD". Now you should be able to see the Applications folder. Drag it to the Dock. Now look for the "Users" folder. Open it. Do you see a folder that looks like a house? Open it. Do you see "Documents"? Drag it to the Dock.' i tried that and didnt work.
PLEASE HELP!!! THAT file that got deleted has all my important files.
THANK YOU

Do you see "Documents"? Drag it to the Dock.' i tried that and didnt work.
THAT file that got deleted has all my important files.
When you drag a folder to the Dock and it sticks in there (near the Trash can area) it's only a "alias" and the original goes back to where you dragged it from.
What I suspect occurred is you accidentally dropped the original Documents folder either into the Trash or the Downloads folder, or even the Applications folder "alias" by accident and it's disappeared.
Spotlight might not be able to search the Trash or Downloads, or perhaps you have indexing turned off for the Applications folder.
So I suggest you manually look in those folder for the Documents folder and place it back into your User folder (home)
Then you can try dragging the Documents folder to the Trash can area on the Dock to create the alias.

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