File Manager stating "This directory is empty." for a user's home directory

Question

Why is cPanel >> File Manager stating that an account's home directory is empty when there are files and directories in it?

Answer

This is commonly caused by your user's /home/user directory having the wrong ownership assigned to it.

You can use the chown command to correct the directory's ownership:

chown user.user /home/user

replacing the users in the above-provided command with the actual cPanel account's username.