Copying settings from one OS X user to another

We have an older Mac Pro tower running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 for running some legacy programs that won't run on newer OS X versions (some are discontinued programs like Freehand, which we need to access older design files to convert them to other programs like Illustrator). This Mac used to be on the desk of one of our prepress staff. Now it is in a shared location, since she has a newer Mac running Yosemite. But the settings needed for the old software, the flatbed scanner attached to that Mac, and other stuff is all under this one staff member's profile. We don't want other users knowing her password to log in to that profile on the legacy Mac.How can we best reassign/copy that profile/home folder to a new user account and get the permissions right? The Mac is bound to Active Directory. We tried renaming the folder and account on the...
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