Best practices: migrating from Aperture 2 to Aperture 3

What are the best practices for moving from Aperture 2 to Aperture 3. One thing I do know from reading the discussions board is to turn off Faces recognition until everything is working. What else?

Make sure you do a full backup and rebuild on the aperture 2 library before you migrate. (opt-cmd when you open Aperture 2)
Aperture 3 may slow down on you don't be scared it will finish. Mine took 1 1-/2 days, about 30,000 raw photos / 800GB.
Don't reprocess masters until Aperture is done with everything it needs to do, keep an eye on the activity window.
After you reprocess masters it will take a long time to generate thumbnails, again don't worry.
Bill Debevc
sshaphotos.com

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