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I am a novice Ubuntu user. Mine is Xubuntu Ver 4.8.

I was then unable to access my user account named tomato. Everytime I login the splash, it just went back to the login page. So I tried browsing for some answers. I then tried

Ctrl+Alt+F1 then

sudo chow -R tomato /home /tomato

I think it was not allowed so I typed in

sudo chmod -R 755 /home /tomato

Nothing happened so I tried the first command and I think it did something. Then I tried the second command and I think it also worked.

Now I can access the user TOMATO but then my old files are gone. All the settings were refreshed. Installed files under Wine were gone.

How can I revert back to how my old user account was?

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