Getting User Settings from One MBP to another MBP

Scenario: I've got two 2011 MBP 13" 2.7ghz 500GB Hybrid SSD 8GB RAM laptops. On one of them, the hard drive became unrepairable, so in order to fix, I transferred all of my data via thunderbolt from the unrepairable hard drive to the other MBP's hard drive. I then erased and restored the hard drive of the machine not working and reinstalled Lion. All good. I then transferred all of my data back. Question, how do I get my user settings back if I skipped the set up assistant the first time around? Migration assistant? I put the MBP holding my old data in target disk mode but I only am able to migrate the settings of the previously working MBP. Does this make sense? Thank you.

If I'm getting this right (and that's not certain) when you first
transferred all of my data via thunderbolt from the unrepairable hard drive to the other MBP's hard drive.
How did you do this and what did you copy and where (to another folder?) on the working MBP?

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Prince Moe wrote:
Hi
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