None of my Applications transferred when Backed up my Mac for a Clean Install

I recently copied all of my important folders & files to an external drive -- everything under my user file.  My documents, Music, Photos, etc. all backed up correctly.  So I clean-installed mavericks.
Today I opened up my applications folder to get MS Office back, and the only thing in my applications folder is a folder named "Akami."  That's it.  My Microsoft Office Suite--powerpoint, word, excel--photoshop, dreamweaver, and MORE are all gone, and the only place I had them was on my mac. 
First, why didn't they back up like everthing else did.  Second, if I formatted my drive, is there ANY WAY to get these back?  And no, I didn't time machine or anything else because I thought they were on my drive.
Thanks.

Yallo248 wrote:
I recently copied all of my important folders & files to an external drive -- everything under my user file.  My documents, Music, Photos, etc. all backed up correctly.  So I clean-installed mavericks.
Today I opened up my applications folder to get MS Office back, and the only thing in my applications folder is a folder named "Akami."  That's it.  My Microsoft Office Suite--powerpoint, word, excel--photoshop, dreamweaver, and MORE are all gone, and the only place I had them was on my mac. 
First, why didn't they back up like everthing else did.  Second, if I formatted my drive, is there ANY WAY to get these back?  And no, I didn't time machine or anything else because I thought they were on my drive.
Thanks.
It didn't back up your applications because you backed up "everything under your user file". Applications for all users aren't in the Home directory, they're in the root of the hard drive. What you should have done was to clone your entire drive to an external.
If you had just formatted your drive and hadn't done anything else to it, you might get them back. But it sounds like you've already reinstalled OS X, so any chance of getting things back is extremely slim.
Sorry.

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