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Whenever a user is created on a Mac OS X computer, user's home folder is automatically created. It resides in Users folder at the root of hard drive. Every user has separate and semi-private space, which can not be accessed by other users. In order to prevent unauthorized access of your private and confidential data in home folder, you can encrypt it by turning on the FileVault.

Any damage to home folder due to operating system malfunction, file system corruption and other hard drive issues can render all of your critical data inaccessible and result into data loss situations. In such case, you need to opt for Mac Data Recovery solution to get your critical data back.

In some situations, you might need to carry out an Archive and Install installation of your Mac OS X operating system without preserving the users. This process deletes your home folder and all of the data, which it contains. This user mistake, either intentional or unintentional, cause serious data loss and may put you in critical situations. In such situations, you need to get your files from home folder by performing Mac Recovery. You need to follow these steps to recover home folder in Mac OS X:

Select System Preferences from Apple menu and choose Accounts.

Create a new administrator account. You can use same name as former user's account. This account will replace the earlier one.

Log out from your account and log into the new account.

Go to /Users/Deleted Users and then double click 'deleted_user.dmg' file (here deleted_user is name of deleted account) to mount disk image on desktop.

Copy all the data from disk image.

Although, this method is useful and work in the majority of cases, but if you have used 'Delete Immediately' function for deleting a user, this process can not help you to recover data. In such situations, you are required to perform Data Recovery Mac using third party software.

These software are known as Mac Recovery software, which are powerful enough to methodically scan affected Mac hard drive and extract all of the data from it. With simple and graphical user interface, these tools can be used without should technical skills. These applications keep the integrity of your data intact as they have read only and non destructive design.

Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is an advanced and powerful software that is capable of handling most of the data loss situations. It recovers data from all HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper and FAT file system volumes. This software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5, 10.4 and 10.3.9.

About the Author:

Allen a student of Mass Communication doing research on Mac data recovery and data recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com