Migration from old macbook air

I have just brought an iMac and wanted to move all the documents from my old macbook air onto the iMac to free some space from the air. I have used the migration assist to transfer the documents across however it has deleted all my new iMac settings. Will I have lost new software and apps etc that came with the new iMac? Is there a way I can just have the documents from the macbook air without all the settings and old things that were on the macbook air? I want to restore all the settings I had before the migration on the iMac but keep the documents - please help!!! Worried I have ruined my new iMac!
Thanks
Hannah

Start over, booting into Internet Recovery mode, wipe the HD, reinstall the OS, and, on first boot, follow the steps in Pondini's Setup New Mac guide to migrate your stuff from the MBA.
27" i7 iMac (Mid 2011) refurb, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), ML & SL, G4 450 MP w/Leopard, 9.2.2

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Although spent hours on the phone with Apple and bought necessary cables, they were not able to get migration assistant to work using ethernet.
You can't use firewire as new macbook air doesn't have it. You can use thunderbold as old macbook air doesn't have it.
Finally I was told to use Time Machine. After connecting old macbook air backup to new macbook air and using migration assistant, I got a message saying (essentially) 'you can use this from an old mac'. Spent more time on the phone with Senior tech support. They had no clue.
Finally called the store. Genius said, you can't migrate from old macbook air with Snow Leopard to new macbook air with Lion. You must upgrade old macbook air to Lion first.
GEEZ, do you think someone at tech support might have mentioned that DAYS ago?

Tvlguy wrote:
Finally called the store. Genius said, you can't migrate from old macbook air with Snow Leopard to new macbook air with Lion. You must upgrade old macbook air to Lion first.
That is bad info.
The MBA that I am using right now used a TM backup from my old MBP, which was running Snow Leopard. Absolutely no problems using Setup Assistant to import all the apps, data, user settings. The session performed flawlessly, and took about an hour to move everything.
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/
Sign up for the free trial, and use the office applications online for up to 30 days.
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Is my question out there?
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Move your Mail folders into place (and replace any newer folders there, so you will have exactly the same folder setup as you did in the old one).
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Now while this was made as a FAQ to move between PowerPC and Intel Mac:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0
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http://store.apple.com/us/mac/mac-accessories/cables#!
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http://store.apple.com/us/search/thunderbolt#!

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