Dir gone - how to get it back?

[Colin Law]

On 15 May 2013 06:14, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> 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 :-) ]?

Just to check, are you saying that if you do
sudo ls /home
that the directory for that user is missing?

Colin