How to easy transfer files from one user to another (OSX Mavericks)

Dear community,
A few years ago i added my former user account, and i just found out that the name can be changed, but it wont change in the finder directories.
So i decided to make a new, fresh user account for my mac pro.
My question is:
How can i easy transfer all the files to the new user account??? (Desktop, pictures, movies, music etc)
I cant seem to easy access the files from the other user account...... And if possible, i would like to do it all at once.
Please help me...
Thnx in advance!!!
Best regards,
Nicky

See: http://pondini.org/OSX/Transfer.html

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