Transfer info to new user

I just added my wife as a user on my eMac i'd like to know what is the best way to put some of my music from my iTunes and some photos from iPhoto on her iTunes & iPhoto also my address book

Export the songs, photos, and address book records into individual files in the /Users/Shared/ folder, and then log in from the new account and import those files into the applications you exported them from.
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Ok here is my question. I am not trying to transfer data to a different computer. What I want to do is transfer the user files (pics, music, documents) from one user to another.
What happened was my sister really messed up her user account putting things in every which direction. And the user account doesnt function very well. The user account cannot run some apps. Apps closes. I dont konw whats going on.
What I want to do is create a new user and transfer her data (pics, music and documents) to that new user and then ultimately deleted the corrupted user. How can I do this. Because I see that I cant access info of another user from within a current user.
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you can copy what you need from the old user to a separate location which is accessible to all users like /Users/Shared. then log into the new user and copy them back to the new home directory. see this link on what to copy
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507

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