After lots of tries, and going nowhere, I bit the bait and started a new library

Hi,
After going nowhere with my old B4.1 library, and spending too much time on it, I decided to start fresh, and just export the XMP files, as suggested by several people here.
After a failed attempt at exporting all of the 24,000 pictures XMPs (left the computer doing it at the night but when I came LR had crashed), I decided to export only the last year of photos (where adjustments were mostly made with LR). It took a while, failed to do that for 2 pictures (over 5,500 or so), but it finished.
So, yesterday I moved around the pictures in my HD (a reorder was needed anyway), and start the import... finished today, it gave some problems ("different files had different errors" but the errors were nowhere to be seen, I believe some of them are related to PSD without the compatibility flag, but without the exact error that LR is seeing, it's really hard to know, or worse, to fix it - another thing that IMHO needs to be solved) with some files, but almost all of the photos were in.
I had also been thinking about using DNG for a long while (I always use raw in my camera, a 20D and previously a Digital Rebel)... and this morning I decided to convert all of my library to DNG. It's been working for a big while (Activity Monitor displays 4 hours and a half of CPU time for LR), after a crash when doing the first 1,500 or so. Anyway, it has still maybe 65% of my library to go, so it's going to take easily all day. Fortunately this operation uses several threads/processors, not like the exporting of XMP, that seems to use only one, which is... well... 1/4 of the processing power of my mac :-) (hint hint Adobe!)
Anyway, let's hope tomorrow I can finally start working and seeing the new things that the release version of LR has. Have read some reviews and parts of the manual, and it really looks promising.
Thanks Sean and Geoff for the help with my corrupted library, I still haven't got answer from Adobe customer service (no surprise here, I'm still waiting for response or at least aknowledge from a case I opened almost 15 days ago...), but maybe it's better starting with a new library than reimporting an old one in who knows what conditions...
Regards,
Rodrigo

Well... too late :-)... as I said, it only crashed me once, and I really don't know why. I see that another thread is running, "Acumulating metadata" that I would like to stop, but it doesn't seem to stop. So far everything has been running smoothly, so I expect the 65% that still needs processing will end correctly.
If I get some problem I'll with smaller batches... but I sure hope this ends by itself. I still get the creeps of thinking of going picture by picture as I did some days ago trying to fix my library import issues...

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