Moved user to a different computer, now can't open any files.

I moved my friends account and his home directory to a different Mac and now none of the files will open. The user account name and password are the same and permissions are under his name, but when we try to open a file none will open. If I try to open a Pages file, it crashes Pages. If I try to open a .doc file, I get an error that says "file format invalid".
His home directory is 9gb and the individual files are more than 0k so the information has to still be in there. I repaired permissions to no avail. How do I get this information back?

Assuming the short user name of the account is "jim", Log in to the new Mac's admin account and enter these two commands into Terminal:
sudo chown -R jim:jim ~jim [press return, enter admin password when prompted]
sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~jim

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