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Backing up Apple laptop

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My friend has an 2007 apple laptop that she wants me to back up.

Long story short i have alot of experience fixing windows laptops but very little work with apple products.

The computer will not boot for some reason, so i hooked the hard drive up to my windows computer,using macdrive 8. For some reason i cannot find her documents. If i use treesize, i can see that 50gb of the 160 is taken up by files, but i cannot view the missing 40 gb. I can view all of the system files, but it seems like the documents are missing/hidden. Does apple have some kind of configuration where i have to take over permissions to view files or am i just missing something.
 
It's possible that the home directory is encrypted. I'm not sure what an encrypted folder looks like to MacDrive. Personal documents and files should be in /Users/<username>.

If that directory is encrypted, I believe you'll need to hook the drive back up to a Mac and authenticate to gain access.
 
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