I cant find my files on my hard drive!

I reinstalled macosx tiger in order to fix a corrupted file, but now all my music is missing. I reinstalled by using the archive option so nothing would be deleted, and all of my apps are on the computer, but i dont have any videos, music, or documents. is there a way to find these things? I know they're on the hard drive somewhere because im still missing a bunch of space on it. i've tried using the search function but nothing is working. is there anything else i can do?

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