Migration to Photos from iPhoto

Need some help.. So i followed the set up process in Photos to migrate my iPhoto library across. However after completing the process and taking agers for it to load my photos haven't moved across to the new Photos App. When trying to manually select the iPhoto Library by holding down the Option key and clicking Photos it wouldn't let me select my iPhoto library. Its saying that it's already been migrated.. Can anyone assist please.

Yes. It is stored in the pictures directory under the account name. Worked fine as iPhoto. Upgraded to Yosemite, iPhoto wasn't available. Installed updates to Yosemite, iPhoto went away, replaced, even in the dock, by Photos.
In the Pictures directory I have two files related to the problem:
iPhoto Library.migratedphotolibrary 73.4 GB
Photos Library.photoslibrary 73.21 GB
When I photos, there are no photos.
When I double click on Library.photoslibrary Photos opens up, but there are no photos.

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