Restoring files form maverick to mountain lion

i have new macbook pro with maverick on it. i have my old macbook pro with mountain lion from which i deleted all files. now i want to put everything back on the mountain lion computer. is there a way to restore it from the backup of the maverick computer? if not, what's the best way to get it all back? can i somehow use migration assistant? thank you.

Hello gail kovler2,
The following article provides the steps necessary for using Migration Assistant to transfer your data from a Time Machine backup.
OS X: How to migrate data from another Mac using Mavericks
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5872
Cheers,
Allen

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Hi..
I repled to you here > https://discussions.apple.com/message/25598596#25598596
Please do not start duplicate topics. It makes it that much harder to assist you.

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