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How to transfer files from the current user to a user name

Is that what you really want to do and why?

In particular, you want to create a user account completely new to replace an old account may be corrupt, or you want to just copy some files?

If you want to copy the user profile, see http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fix-corrupted-user-profile#1TC=windows-7

If you just want to copy files from the ALICE user to user BOB,

  1. Connect you as a user with "Computer administrator" privileges (this could be ALICE, BOB or another account)
  2. Go to C:\Users\Alice\Documents, right click on desired folders or files and select copy
  3. Go to C:\Users\Bob\Documents and paste files or folders you copies

Always use 'Copy' rather than 'move '.  After you have determined that the files were copied successfully to their new location, you can go back and delete them from the old location.

For other than documents files, replace

C:\Users\\Music

C:\Users\\Pictures

C:\Users\\Videos

etc.

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