Clean install with home folder and multiple users

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Published on 2012-10-14T20:09:17Z Indexed on 2012/10/14 21:51 UTC
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I had reformatted my system (unfortunately an update failed) and had my home folder on a separate partition. Thankfully I still have all of my users files (in their respective folders), but there was no option to use this on install (since my update had failed...).

How can I recreate the old users with their previous home directories?

(Are there problems with user permissions with just dragging and dropping the entire contents of folders?)

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