Import Account from Previous System

Through a series of stupid moves, I have ended up with a newly installed operating system that has a new account. But I need to import my previous account that is now part of a Previous System folder. When I try to use Migration Assistant, I am unable to to tell it to import from the Previous System folder that is on my current drive.
Is there anyway around this? Should I copy that user folder to an external drive and bring it in that way?
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks in advance

BayArea MacFan wrote:
Everything was going smoothly until it got to the Library folder--then the troubles continued. It seems that folder would not copy over to the Laptop without a permissions error.
Make sure you do not confuse the root level Library folder with the library folder in your home folder. You should have had an image file of your entire original home folder if you followed the Apple procedure, & *while logged in as the root user* copied the entire folder into the root level /Users/ folder in one step. This would copy everything in the home folder over, including its Library folder & all its contents. There should be no permissions issues because the root user is "god" & has permissions to do almost anything.
I assume you now have an image file of the original home folder on something other than the laptop's drive -- otherwise it would have been erased when you "wiped" your laptop. I suggest that you now do the following:
1. When the install completes, create the first user account with some name *other than* the name of your archived home folder.
2. Follow the 12 step procedure in How to get files from a previous home directory after Archive and Install very carefully.
3. You should see the message mentioned in step 9 about using the existing home folder you moved to Users in step 7.

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