Interrupted update; how do I restore corrupted library?

My iPhoto update (to 9.6.1, I think) was interrupted due to a power surge. This seems to have left my iPhoto library (all 200+Gb of it) nonfunctional. I tried rebuilding my backup copy with iPhoto Library Manager but it says the album data file cannot be found. Googling around, I've found suggestions that all I can do is create a new library by importing all my pictures from the Masters Folder, which is pretty extreme. Is there any other alternative I have? I noticed that I have files called iPhotoLock.data and InterruptedUpgrade (when I examine package contents) and I do seem to have some files in Database; is there a way to rebuild that first?

Tried but no luck. Running across another thread, I tried deleting them and reopening in iphoto. But then I got stuck creating new thumbnails (got up to 32 Gb of ram before I killed the process). I had an older library from another six months earlier (I periodically copy the entire library to a hard drive that I store elsewhere in case of fire, which I mean to do more often than I actually do) and I was ultimately able to use that as a basis to then copy just six months of photos over. Better than nothing, but it still seems to me that it should be possible to recreate the xml file somehow.

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