Making External User Library Visible

Hi all,
I just got a new MBP and it came with a User account that I've now put some time into, including copying various things from my old User account. I'm pretty much committed to the new account now, but I realize there are items from my User Library I ought to copy over. I've learned how to make my User Library visible on the new computer, but I can't figure out how to do that on the old one.
I've been accessing the old data from an external backup. Would accessing it from the old computer directly, using Target Disk, work better? Are there any other ways to make the Library visible other than the View Option method?
Thanks for any tips!

Hi all,
I solved my problem so, in case anyone else cares, here's how I did it. I simply booted up from my Carbon Copy Cloner backup of the old computer running on an external drive connected to the new computer.
For whatever reason, the new computer did not recognize the supposedly permanent "Show Library" command I had checked on the cloned old computer, but the old clone did recognize the same "Show Library" command on the new machine. Odd, as they are both running Yosemite. In any case, having booted from the clone, I was able to access my Library data and copy it over to the new machine. Maybe that will help someone some day.
God bless Carbon Copy Cloner!
Franz

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Don Stubbs wrote:
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