How to recover a corrupt iPhoto library when iPhoto cannot rebuild it?

Soon after upgrading to Yosemite, I've downloaded and installed iPhoto 9.6. Upon opening, iPhoto requested to upgrade the photo library, which I allowed. It got stuck at around 25% along the way, and I left it working on that overnight. The next day, it was stuck at the same point. I force-quitted the application and reopened it, tried to upgrade the library again, but this time the application crashed. When I reopened it, I found that 'permissions needed to be repaired'. So I did, and iPhoto crashed – now whenever iPhoto opens and tries to examine the library, it crashes. I tried repairing permissions again, rebuilding the database and all, to no avail.
It seems that the only solution will be to manually import all tenths of thousands of photos, modified and original. Would anyone be able to shed some light on the issue and maybe recommend a better way? Thanks!

Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

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