I moved my users/yourname folder my other drive and want to move it back

Hi there.
I recently swapped out the internal hard drive for an SSD and I swapped the optical drive for another HDD.
I use the SSD as a system drive that I don't write to.
The HDD is for audio and documents.
I moved my users/yourname to the HDD including the library folder but it's been strongly recommended that I move the users folder back to the system drive and move the iTunes, iPhoto, docs,and desktop folders to the HDD. Do I just simply copy the folder back over to the SSD and delete the folders on the HDD? do I need to do anything in the terminal?
thanks for your help.
-Matt

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