Help! Aperture ate my Library

Hi all - after updating to 10.4.4 Aperture has started to go berserk. At first I thought it was just choking on the project I tried to import (about 12 gigs of D2x nefs - it crashed midway through the import) but now I find that Aperture crashes every time I start it up. I get a message "recovering 1 of 610 images", it gets halfway through, and crashes.
I've done a few things to try to fix this - I deleted the plist file. This stopped the crash to a degree - now it only crashes when I try to access three of my projects. But now none of my non-crashing projects are displaying properly. Some show no images, some show too few images, some crash entirely.
I've looked into the library package and confirmed that the images are still there.
Any thoughts?

Charles, it sounds like the first crash corrupted one or more of the files you have in your library. Aperture uses a relational database structure to connect key information fields between images. If these links get corrupted, the program will crash when it is told to access these images.
You can try to rebuild the library. If memory serves me, I believe you press the space bar when you start the program. Sorry, I'm not where my notes are on this, but this method has been mentioned several times in this forum. Rebuild the database and give it a try. Hopefully, this will solve your problem.
If it doesn't, then you will need to manually go in and remove the corrupted image file(s) and/or folders from the library. The library is not kept in some mystical format, but is rather a traditional folder-within-folder file structure that can be accessed. I believe you do this by right-clicking on the library folder and then going to show info. Again, all from memory. Be careful. You will need to be very careful doing this to make sure you only remove the correct files. I would back up the library before doing this, however.
Maybe someone else has more suggestions to help you out.
Good luck.
Jeff Weinberg

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