Cant fully upgrade to aperture 3.3

I am having hard time upgrading my library to 3.3 it always get stuck at step 5 of 7 (99% complete). I tried everything, all the repairs and rebuild it doesnt work. Right now I want to use the vault to backup my library and when i press the update vault botton it goes to the upgrade steps and gets stuck and I cant backup my library now.
any idea what i might be doing wrong?
I am using macbook pro late 2011
thanks

Does Aperture 3.3 work with a new, empty library? If it works with a new library, your Aperture Library probably is corrupted and needs fixing. This will be tricky, since the "Rebuild" does not work.
If Aperture 3.3 does not work with a new, empty library, try if Aperture works from a different user account.
Should it turn out, that Aperture 3.3. does not work correctly from a new user account, you have a system wide trouble. Then reinstall Aperture 3.3., and if that does not help, reinstall the system.
But if it is your current Aperture Library that is broken, try to restore it from your backup.
Do you have a backup of your system from the time before the upgrade to Aperture? And a backup of your Aperture 3.2.4 installation? By reverting to 3.2.4 you could try to rebuild your Library with AP 3.2.4 and do the conversion to 3.3 from a library without glitches.
Regards
Léonie

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