I'm sorry to hear that this happened and that your circumstances are different than mine. My issue happened during one of the new Mac OS installs. I used to either archive and install or do clean installs whenever I updated OSX because it has been unreliable at times to update and re-configure permission with each new release. However with the new app store approach these options are no longer available.
Moving files between user accounts is not an overly difficult task, although it can be time consuming, a couple hours max. Regardless, it is probably better to do this now then to wait for more problems to occur because corrupt user profiles do happen at times on Mac (and occasionally Windows too) and has been known to affect more software than just Adobe. Below are some steps involved to help get you started:
- First, programs do not need to be migrated in the default setup. Unless you are on a system controlled by an administrator whereby each user installs their own, I don't think this should be an issue.
- Next, just create a new account (with admin privileges if your current account is an admin).
- Then go to the finder and copy the files from your old user account to the new one. This is located at Macintosh HD :: Users :: {username}
- Then go to the preferences folder in the user library. For this log in as your current account, then use the Go to Folder command ( Shift + Cmd + G ). For the most part only the Application Support folder needs to be brought over. There are a few exceptions like Firefox/Mozilla profiles are in their own folder in the Library. Outside of that you should be good to go.