I've used migration assistant - what's next?

I've used migration assistant and it created a new user? How do I use those files in the initial account I created? Do I now share the folders? Is there an automatic way to transfer them to the actual account I want to use?

The Users-> Shared folder allows both accounts to access the same folders.

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