Restored a Library folder from 2 years ago

Hello,
In a desperate attempt to fix somtehing that was ultimately not fault of my macbook pro in any way, I decided to restore an old library folder from when I used Snow Leopard (now I'm using Mavericks) 2 years ago with time machine,
The question is that I am worried if this is going to have any bad effects on the system now that the macbook has new programs and uses Mavericks? What's the worst that could happen?
Everything has run normally so far, rebooted several times and everything seems ok.
Thanks a lot.

There are several Library folder in OS X. Not including the iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie Library folders.
There is one in the ROOT of the drive, one in your user folder, one in the System folder. If you copied over a Snow Leopard ROOT Library folder to Mavericks I don't see how the system could still be working. That is unless it didn't really copy and or overwrite the mavericks library folder.
Why not start by detailing why you did this.

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