IPhoto library won't complete upgrade

I recently upgraded to iPhoto 9.3 and when I opened the program, it said that my iPhoto library (1.47GB) needed to be upgraded as well. The blue bar says step 9 of 9 100% complete, but it won't go away and the white spinning icon thing keeps spinning and spinning for hours and now I have to force quit the program to get it to stop. I've tried reinstalling the program as well as reinstalling the iPhoto library from a back up disk to run the upgrade over again and it remains stuck. I have no idea what to do, please help. I'm running Lion btw.

It should be noted that there is no "Rebuild Library" option when you start iPhoto with option-command.
There are 4 radio buttons choices, the one that seems to work is the fourth one : "Rebuild Database".

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Given that the new Library works it tells us the the problem is not with Aperture, but with the iPhoto Library, which has some form of corruption.
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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.
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I'll try to be as detailed as I can:
I have a mid-2010 iMac. I backed-up and then wiped my Mountain Lion hard drive so that I could have a clean install of Mavericks. I am now in the process of importing my backed-up files, like iTunes and documents, from my external back-up to my new Mavericks machine. Everything in this process has worked so far. I moved the iPhoto library over from the external back-up to the proper location (Users->Pictures->iPhoto Library). Two hours later when the transfer was complete, rather than having a normol iPhoto Library icon (stack of pictures with a photo of a flower), the library appeared as a folder with a half done progress bar and an "x" close button in the corner.
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What version of iPhoto were you running prior to Mavericks? First boot into Revovery volume (boot with the Command + R keys held down) and repair the disk and disk permissions. Then reboot back into Mavericks.
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There was a problem with copying the older iPhoto library from the backup. Delete the library and drag it once again from the backup drive to the Pictures folder. Run the upgrader again. Is this what you see when your first launch the upgrader?
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Dear wise friends,
I was careless and started dragging photos from my iPhoto Albums folder, which is inside the iPhoto Library folder, which is inside the Pictures folder under my user name on the Hard drive.
I didn't notice until after I dragged a couple of photos that is was moving the photos out of the original album folder and into the folder I created on the desktop. It was my hope to just copy and paste the photos-not completely remove them from their original Album folder.
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iPhoto help and online support both say: +*"Important: If you move, delete, rename, or change files or folders in the iPhoto Library folder, you may be unable to see your pictures in iPhoto."*+
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Hi, lane, and welcome to Apple Discussions. You need to rebuild your library. Hold down the Shift and Option keys while starting iPhoto. Keep holding them down until you're asked whether you want to rebuild the library. Click Yes, then click Save.
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Because the rebuilding process creates an entirely new library folder the same size as the original, you must have adequate hard drive space for that before you begin. And unless your hard drive is really tiny (10GB or smaller), you should always keep at least 5GB of available space on it in addition to everything that's stored on it, even while both library folders are present. The operating system needs those 5GB of space for temporary files and "elbow room" at all times.

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I didn't do any backups before upgrading to Maverick...

Well do a back up now.
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Slightly more complex: Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically.
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Success! Thank you, a brody.
This morning I took your suggestion and started a rebuild of the Photo library. It took about six hours to do so, but when it was complete iPhoto was open and all my photos were accessible. However, only a very few of the thumbnails showed; the rest represented by dotted boxes. Because the computer was not indicating that any further activity was in progress, I thought perhaps the process was not entirely successful. I closed IPhoto and reopened it. Before it would open completely, it gave me the option of doing a thumbnail rebuild, which I did. About five hours later the thumbnail rebuild was complete and iPhoto is working again.
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