Hope someone can help - Lightroom not working...at all...nothing....

I have tried installing about 20 or so times now and still cant get any thing at all when i launch the application - its likek it freezes. Something somewhere is missing or corrupt in my mac or the dowmload i downloaded and here's really hoping someone can help.
I have been using the beta since beta 1. This morning i downloaded the V1.0 and went through the usual steps on a mac. Launched the programme and got the option screen of entering a code or trying for free for 30 days.
Chose the free trial as my serial code had not yet been sent.
The application seemed to start and then said it was going to upgrade/update (or similar) my old library and this may take a few minutes. Fine - I've got all day - no worries.
5 hours later and not a whole lot appears to have happened other than Lightroom being frozen and I cant do much. Force quit ensues and an attempt to relaunch the application.
It launches and I getthe start up Window that lists all teh people who made it...but my cursor just goes into spinning ball mode an dnothing happens. This has now gone on about 20 or so times. I have tried removing the Lightroom with Appzapper and then re-installing the original beta followed by the new download....still nothing but a frozen lightroom
Anyone got any ideas - it must be something to do with my mac as everyone else seems to be using lightroom ok... and i'm desperate...seeing as i've been using it since beta 1
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Another thing to check is the permission settings on the Lightroom application and on the folder where your library lives (or will live, if you're making a new one.)
The Lightroom application needs to have an owner who has read/write permission on the library folder's location. Normally this owner will either be your own user ID or the "system" ID -- check by doing a command-i and seeing what shows up under the 'Details' section of the 'Ownership and Permissions' section.
I was having exactly the same problem you described until I checked and discovered that for some reason, Adobe's Installer had installed Lightroom with a strange owner ID that only had read permission on my library folder's location. Since Lightroom needs to be able to both read and write to the library when it starts up, it was launching and then just sitting there doing nothing.
I changed Lightroom's owner to 'system,' then made sure that the 'admin' group (of which 'system' is a member) had read/write permission on my library folder's location. After that, Lightroom launched fine.

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