easy transfer isn't easy

I'm trying to transfer documents from my laptop to desktop. The transfer shows that all is well but in fact the data has gone to my old user on the desktop which has screwed up gmailand I no longer use. I have my new user account open during the transfer but the dbf's keep going to the old user. can anyone help, this has to be something minor that I am doing wrong. I have transfered my user files 5 times with the same wrong results...

You haven't given us much information to go on.

What operating systems are the machine in question running ?

You mention an old user, is it not possible to delete the old user if it's not there the transfer can't go to it.