Migration Assistant just did everything that I didn't want it to do

Question

I backed up my MBP running Lion to an external drive and formatted the MBP and installed Mavericks. I wanted a clean start and for it to run better, it was having problems.
I just used Migration Assistant to transfer my data back. I only slected to transfer Desktop and Documents from the TM backup.
1. I received a message at the end of the transfer that Flip4Mac was not compatible with my OS. I did not select to transfer applications. I wanted to have a fresh harddrive without copying over problems. Why was this copied over? Was it copied to one of the old user accounts or to my main one?
2. It created 2 new user accounts on my Mac, even though I only had one selected in Migration Assistant, the one that had the Desktop and Documents that I wanted to copy over. I don't want these old user accounts.
3. All of the files from desktop and documents are now in another/older user account. How can I transfer them to the main account I want to use?
4. Can I just delete the other user accounts that it created? Will it also delete any applications and any other files that it copied over that I do not want?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

media fred wrote:
1.) So anything that was copied over, are ONLY contained in those other two useraccounts that it copied over so if I delete them it will remove everything that it copied over?
If you only selected to copy the user accounts, yes.
2.) Are you suggesting that I delete those accounts and the data in them and do it all over again?
If you want to but you wrote, "I don't want these old user accounts".
3.) What should I do if the old account was Media Fred and the new one is Media Fred? I can not change the name of Media Fred? How do I transfer everything into this account?
Create a new account (Fred - Admin or something).
Log out and log back into Fred - Admin.
Delete the other accounts.
Run Migration Assistant and select Media Fred to migrate.
After it's done, log out and log into Media Fred and it will be as it was on the old computer.
4.) Would it be easier to just drag the folders from the TM backup to my account on the new MBP? Are there issues with doing it this way?
Migration Asistant is much simpler and there won't be any issues.
You still need to create the user accounts then drag and this usually ends up with lotsa permissions errors (easily fixed) nd other stuffI've never had success doing it without a bunch of cleanup. Not worth the time.