Export as catalogue

I am starting the process of upgrading from LR3 to LR4. I have followed the recommendation in Martin Evening`s book and begun by using "export as cataloue. I have tried this 5 times but each time the program stops working after a couple of minutes. Any suggestions ?

I am always very nervous when I attempt an update as I have a lot of pix in the catalogue.
Consequently, I stopped the upgrading when I couldn`t update the catalogue.
So I am still at square 1.
If I cannot upgrade the catalogue, do I just go ahead with installing LR4 and then use the catalogue that was produced the last time I closed down LR3 ?

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