How do I get iPhoto to work again?

It has crashed a couple of times.  I lost my photos.  I had to rebuild from my carbonite account.  But I can't manipulate my photos without I photo.  It tells me that my I photo library is outdated and needs to be upgraded.  But when I attempt to upgrade it does not work.  Any suggestions?

If your iPhoto icon is blue, you probably have iPhoto 9.5.1 and your current system is MacOS 10.9.x.
Does it look like this?
Try this fix posted by Terence Devlin:
Re: I have an aperture file I can't. When I try it say to open in Iphoto to update. When I try to open in iPhoto won't open because it say the file is open in 'null'. It say I need to close null. What is null? and how do I close it ?
User Elijahg figured this one out
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Note the file there called iPhotoLock.data  - Delete it.
Then inside the Database folder find another folder called apdb
Note file there called lockfile.pid - Delete it.
Make no other changes
Now try launch iPhoto.
-- Léonie
Aand if that does not help, delete these lockfiles:
Delete the following two preference files from your Home/Library/Preferences folder:
com.apple.iApps.plist
com.apple.iApps.lockfile

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