Cannot access my Aperture library

Please help - I cannot access my photos any more. I have >400Gb in my library and all attempts to access it have failed. If I click on Aperture it says I do not have the right file permissions to access. I have read and write: I unlock it in Finder but there is nothing I can do. I looked in Disk Utility and tried First Aid, but the Repair Disk says it is ok. I have held down Option and Cmd and double clicked on Aperture, and have attempted to repair the permissions - it gets half way through a check then says "Could not enforce consitency of files". The other options to repair do not work as it says I have the wrong permissions!!
My only idea now is to put my old discs for Aperture in and apply updates, as the library won't be readable on old versions. Any ideas welcome ...... please?
Thanks, James

Hi Léonie
Thank you so much for offering to help me. I was gathering answers to your questions (OS X 10.7.5; 3.4.3; external, direct; when I tried to log in today, after a week away - the hard disc, a Fujitsu Siemens 1.5Gb drive, does die inexplicably sometimes, and this may have corrupted it I guess), when it suddenly decided to open! I have done nothing other than log in via a different login, attempted to open Aperture and got the same error message. I then logged in via the one I normally use, which failed so many times, on so many fronts, earlier; I read you answer and clicked on Aperture to get the version number to reply to you.......and it opened my library! I have no idea why, but what a relief!
Again, thank you for taking the time to help me, I really appreciate it.
Regards
James

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