@t3p3tony
There are other ways of doing this, would be glad to message someone / help.
But as long as the old docs are online search engines will serve up that one. Once OLD system is off line it could still take a week or so to get search engines on new site with out helping them.
Using 301 redirects is best as it keeps your search status and proof of long lasting good website.
Could add meta to each html page
<meta name="robots" content=”none”> and? noimageindex, nosnippet, nofollow, etc.
Can also do same as .htaccess if using PHP and other ways.
Less friendly can do html redirect but not good to fix Search Engines.
If you have Goolge/bing/etc webmaster tools and all pages have <meta name="robots" content=”none(or more)”> on old site and <meta name="robots" content=”all”> on new site they may have tools to directly find your new links and remove old.
At the bare minimum have all pages on old sites <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> CHANGED to <meta name="robots" content="none, nofollow, nosnippet" />.
Also my example of .htaccess turned into a link. that files does not work as link. it is in root folder of your public web folder. ftp and other programs need to allow to see hidden files. Even if host says you have no access to .htaccess you might still be able to edit. Or create new if does not exist.
Would be glad to help.
`mike