HELP - How do you Merge 2 Users to one without the stuff being Duplicated?

my friend that helped me with my computer today with her mac computer a while ago her computer crashed and she got a new mac and now for some reason on her computer she had to create a new user so meaning for certain stuff she had to switch back and forth between the 2 users and she wanted to Merge 2 users, on Mac but the First was from back up and the Second is the new user I had to set up and the new user is the most current one and the other thing is she does not want the stuff duplicated so how do you merge them

You can just drag any of your data from the Documents folder to the Shared folder. Then, when you log in as the other user it will be available and you can drag it into the new Documents folder. If you're looking for other preferences or Application Support it gets tricky to do by hand.
What I'd do is start over if it's new. Just boot into boot up holding command-r keys into your Recovery Volume.
Then choose Utilities > Disk Utility, erase the volume and reboot. This will be an Internet Recovery and will take a while. Then, the first time the user boots the machine, while still in Setup Assistant when prompted do the migration and all will be fine.

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