How to access hard drive files from liveCD?

Solution 1:

When running a live session, you cannot access a computer's hard drive via /home directory or Home folder.

You do need to identify and click on the partition's label or name in the side pane of Nautilus to mount it, that is if you are running Ubuntu with GNOME desktop.

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For KDE's Dolphin:

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