Have Home folders Eric and Eric 1 due to problems with Migration Assistant

I have duplicate Home folders for my user accounts after trying several times to copy user data from my old MacBook to my new MacBook Pro. I have deleted the folders labeled "from old Mac" and the non-active Eric folder that were the duplicates from failed migrations. Essentially, I have the short name user Eric but Home folder named Eric 1. The short name is, of course correct, but Mac OS always appends numbers to duplicate folders when creating them and in this case you can't change the folder name to reflect the user name.
There are a number of KB articles detailing how to rename or add new User accounts, but I don't need to do that; I just want my Home folders to not have the appended 1s in their names. Is this fixable without erasing the drive and reinstalling / migrating all over again?
Thanks!

Hi,
Assuming you have everything backed up, I think you could try the following steps to change your home folder name from *Eric 1* to Eric:
Proceed with the first three steps advised by the [KB article|http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1428] mentioned earlier:
For Mac OS X 10.5 or later
1. [Enable the root user|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528].
2. Log in as root.
3. Navigate to the /Users folder.
If the inactive Eric folder has not yet been deleted, either delete it now, or rename it to something like Eric.old.
Rename the *Eric 1* folder to Eric.
Still logged in as root, go to System Preferences>Accounts, control-click on the Eric account, and click Advanced Options. On the next screen, change the Home Directory field from */Users/Eric 1* to /Users/Eric, and then click OK.
Then restart, and try to log in normally as Eric. If all goes well, disable the root account.

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