Aperture 3.4.5 crashes my whole system

I've upgraded to Aperture 3.4.5 and it crashes my whole system (21.5" iMac).
When it is opened all other apps become unresponsive and eventually the whole system hangs with the spinning ball.
I bought an iMac because I was sick of Windows crashing every time you asked it to do something - this I'm afraid is no better and definitely not what I was promised at the time of purchase.

and a 1TB external drive for storage of photos
Is this drive formatted for Mac? If it is not formatted MacOS X Extended (Journaled), Aperture may have problems and hang.
My system runs well when Aperture isn't running but as soon as I start it, the problems start.
Check, what Aperture is doing: Open the Activity Viewer (Aperture's main menu bar > Show Activity)
What does it show?
Is it constantly processing the same image or video?
Is Aperture faster, if you hold down the shift-key while launching Aperture? That will disable some of the background processing.
I've been through all the trouble-shooting and the upgrade was from version 3.4
Which exactly? It is hard to suggest something, if we do not know the results of the steps you tired already.
Regards
Léonie

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