Lost folder named "Home" after Leopard upgrade

This may seem ridiculous but I actually had a personal folder called "Home" on OS 10.4 and when I upgraded to Leopard it disappeared. I thought that it might still be on the computer but that the directory structure might have been corrupted. I used DiskWarrior and was happy to see that the Home folder was still present and had all of the original subdirectories and files. But after rebuilding the directory structure using DiskWarrior the folder still doesnt appear. Can some one help me in transferring the subdirectories and filed to a new folder ... that I will obviously not name "Home"?

kelpster wrote:
This may seem ridiculous but I actually had a personal folder called "Home" on OS 10.4 and when I upgraded to Leopard it disappeared. I thought that it might still be on the computer but that the directory structure might have been corrupted. I used DiskWarrior and was happy to see that the Home folder was still present and had all of the original subdirectories and files. But after rebuilding the directory structure using DiskWarrior the folder still doesnt appear. Can some one help me in transferring the subdirectories and filed to a new folder ... that I will obviously not name "Home"?
Welcome to the Apple forums:
Not ridiculous at all. In fact it was rather common back some months ago.
Apple has a document that should help you fix things:
Here's the link:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307033
Here's another thread in this forum with a similar issue
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6233534
Message was edited by: nerowolfe

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