Just bought a new iMac - having trouble migrating

I have a brand new iMac, upgraded it to Yosemite.  Old iMac is also running Yosemite.
I ran the migration assistant; successfully; I thought and my pictures, music, and documents are not there.
I did cancel and restart the migration assistant a couple of times.  The applications did come across just fine, it looks.
So I am thinking about deleting the user accounts and remigrating just the user accounts, because I don't think I want to
migrate the applications again.  I am frustrated.  I am afraid I am really going to screw up this new computer.
I have a time machine backup on the older computer.   I guess my question is:  If I delete the user accounts from the new computer and
remigrate the accounts is there any chance it will work and not mess up the application migration that I appear to have successfully done.

I found that this was caused by documents with names that started with an apostrophe.  When I renamed them and reran the migration assistant, it went great.

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