Error message IPhoto 5.04 ' a unofficial Photo library'

When I try to start up IPhoto it gives the error message "there is no officel photo library of IPhoto please restart with IPhoto 2 of 4
Any off you have any ideas
Gr Thijs

Hi Thijs,
There are some things you can try but I don't have much hope of them working
1. Delete the com.apple.iPhoto.plist found in your Preferences folder
2. Check and make sure there is a folder called "iPhoto Library" in the Pictures folder
3. Launch iPhoto holding down the option key and choose a library to open by navigating to the library and choose it.
If none of those work you might just want to create a new library and import the old library into it.
Directions are on Page 2. follow the directions at the beginning and then choose one of the methods to import the images. I suggest trying #2 first and see how it goes.
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Started app. It said it would take a few seconds or minutes to upgrade.
About 6 hours later after churning on thumbnails it is now claiming this error over and over with some time that goes by in between:
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Since Steve claims iPhoto6 can easily handle 250,000 photos, I clicked on the upgrade button with confidence. This now appears to be a mistake. Last night I was working on an iDVD for the local school and the majority of that work has simply vanished. There were 320 photos. I spent hours adding keywords, ranking, adjusting temperature, focus, exposure, etc.
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I found 24 GB secretly used by iPhoto 5 for an iPod Photo Cache and a tech bulletin saying this just grows and grows without control and it can be deleted SO I wouldn't put huge hidden disk usage past iPhoto6.
The last none-to-helpful suggestion is that a user make sure that iPhoto is able to access the iPhoto Library folder. Huh?!??!?
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I'll check if I have copies of copies of copies. This could take a while due to the number of files.
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I had told it not to import dupes but who knows if it goes by file name, checksum, byte-for-byte comparison, etc.
I'm not sure if I can even pull up iPhoto5 and 6 at the same time now to scroll through the libraries to see if dupes, thumbs, original/modifies/etc. are showing up to boost the count from under 25K to 79K!
Ideas? At least I know I'm not the only G5 dual user with this problem!
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