Dir gone - how to get it back?

[rikona]

I'm setting up a new 12.04 box. Just installed a few printers, which
seemed to go OK - BUT, after that, one of my home dirs is GONE! Was a
BIG one with about 1/3 of the stuff in home, and very important. Any
idea of why just that dir [apparently] disappeared? Better still, any
way to recover it? I can't see it via another admin account, or with
the CLI. New box, a few days of intensive work, and didn't do a backup
yet. :-(

What's the best thing to do [not involving a large soothing glass of
Scotch :-) ]?

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Best regards,
 rikona