Migration Assistant transferred applications but not other files

I just bought a new MacBook Air yesterday and connected wirelessly to my 2007 MacBook to transfer everything via Migration Assistant. All of my applications were transferred, however none of my 'desktop' or 'downloads' files made it over. I've tried twice now. Any ideas why that might be and what to try?

If the data is from another account, then they're there, but only accessable by the account that has ownership. Transfer those manually or use the other account to change the permissions outside of the home folder, or in the shared folder for that aaccount.
Transfer manually, anything else. Here's an in depth help guide for Time Machine and Migration.
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
Reason 105 of why Setup Assistant is better than Migration Assistant to use on a new Mac the transfer from an old Mac. You would not have had this problem.

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