Time machine after hardrive crash

My hardrive on my macbook pro crashed in December. I got a new one from apple, had everything saved on my time machine, and put all my documents on my the new hardrive (still saved in TM). Just now, I downloaded updates for my computer, and it seems that all my files created since having the new hardrive installed are gone, yet the old ones are here. Can I get the new ones back?

mjebbia wrote:
My hardrive on my macbook pro crashed in December. I got a new one from apple, had everything saved on my time machine, and put all my documents on my the new hardrive (still saved in TM).
How did you do that?
If you used +Migration Assistant,+ you may have an extra user account, and you may be logged-on to the wrong one.

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