Save time on migration!

I wanted to just write few notes on the migration process i just did hoping this could be usefull to someone else.
I just received a MacbookPro Retina and i'm going to use this as a replacement of my old Macbook pro (end 2008 non-unibody).
Since the new MBP retina does not have a ethernet or a firewire port (and i didn't buy the adapter) i decided to do the migration through a TimeMachine backup (wifi linkbetween the 2 machines was also a option)
The first problem i met was that the migration assistant was extremely slow in recognizing the data inside the TimeMachine drive.
I did wait around one hour and it still did not started to copy stuff.
I call the support and they suggested to avoid to migrate the applications, since some complex software (like adobes), might not like it.
So i quit the migration process and i realized that spotlight was actually indexing the drive!
In fact i have multiple partitions on that drive and spotlight was indexing them even if i dismounted them before starting the migration.
I believe that when the migration assistant shuts down everything to start the migration, it actually does something to the disk to so all partitions becomes available. This could be ok, but it becomes a problem if the indexing process do not get shut down by the migration assistant and it tries to index the drive where you are migrating your stuff from.
The solution was to simply go in system preferences, spotlight, and add all the partitions of the drive to the list of stuff that do not get indexed.
The second problem was that i re-created the same account in the new computer.
Since i was logged in during the migration, i was unable to copy my previous account, i was forced to rename it.
So i went to system preferences, accounts, created a new temporary administrator account, logged into it and finally perform the migration from this account.
As a sidenote, migrating around 80gb from a portable usb2 disk, took around one hour.
Hope this could be useful to the community as it took me more than 2 hours to troubleshoot the issues (the first one mainly!)

On ESS, when users fill in their timesheets, they want that incase next weeks data is going to be the same then there should a facility to save draft so that they dont have to manually feed their time every week.
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