Restored files are missing!

Hello -
I know that someone else had a similar problem, but her solution did not solve my problem.
I have a MacBook Pro 15" Intel Core Duo running Snow Leopard.
I had to do a complete hard drive erase, completely erasing everything, with no archive. I had to restore my system from the original 10.4 disk and then I upgraded to snow leopard. that went great. I went into Time Machine to restore some select files. When I started the restore I had 90 gigs, after restore, I had 60 gigs. I cannot find the files anywhere. I have done a spotlight search, tried to find volumes, no luck. I don't have any previous user files anywhere. I tried repairing disk permissions, no joy. I have looked everywhere for the restored files, and I can't find them, and I am about to pull my hair out. What am I missing, and if the files are not on my hard drive, then how the heck did I lose 30 gigs of space?

Mary1973 wrote:
I went into Time Machine to restore some select files. When I started the restore I had 90 gigs, after restore, I had 60 gigs.
What, exactly, did you do? The only thing that might explain that is restoring an empty, or near empty, folder over a full one; Time Machine will delete the old one before restoring the new one. The same thing would happen if you had permission to restore the folder, but not some or all of its contents.
Use the "Star Wars" display to look at the backup you restored from; see if you have permission to it, and if what's there compares to what ought to be there.
Why did you have to erase your HD, and why didn't you do a full restore of your system?

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