User profile disappeared after reboot

I rebooted my MBP Retina today. When booted back up I couldn't log in, wouldn't take my password. I booted into recovery mode to reset the password vua terminal. My user profile was not there, so I reset the password of another profile, logged in, checked users & groups again, my profile is not there. WHen I borwse the disk the folder structure of my username is there but profile is not. - Can i recover from this? I do NOT have a time machine backup.

Hello jimjimk
All you would have to is go to System Preferences > Users & Groups and then create the user again. Pay attention to what you are creating and at least make sure that the short name is the same name as the folder in the Users folder. Once that is don’t you should see and alert that states A folder in the Users folder already has the name "short name". Would you like to use that folder as the Home folder for this user account?" just say yes, log out and then log back in to the user that was just created and all should be good.
How to get files from a previous home directory after Archive and Install
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2196
8. Use the Accounts pane in System Preferences to create a new user with the same short name as the home folder moved in the previous step.
9. Click OK when prompted with "A folder in the Users folder already has the name  "short name".  Would you like to use that folder as the Home folder for this user account?". This will correct the ownership on all files in the Home.
10. Log out.
11. Log in as the user created in the previous step.
Regards,
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