IPhoto 9 just sits there with a spinning beach ball of DEATH!

Hello. I upgraded my G5 power pc to OSX 10.5.8. I upgraded to iLife 9 (8.1.2). Since I did this iLife, iDVD & iMovie just sit there with the spinning beach ball of DEATH.
Before my upgrade I had 22 G of hard disk space. I’m now down to 4G of hard drive space. I cannot get into iPhoto to back up any of the pictures. I have run Tech Tool, Onyx, I did a hard wear test from my original Mac disks. Everything passed.
I reinstalled iLife 4 times so far. I have thrown out all the plists. So far nothing is working.
Any help would be wonderful.
Thanks.

That library may have been corrupted by having it on an over full disk.
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and see if that will open it.
If not then Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your 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.
Regards
TD

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