Iphoto not upgrading to new iMAC

I had posted this to a previous, but thought it was probably better to start a new thread.
I was having a problem with my iphoto - I believe corrupted on old iMAC. However, given I was going to upgrade the iMac anyway, thought I would transfer everything across to the new iMAC and that would be the best way forward.
Everything has come across from TimeMachine and looks to be working fine (eg. itunes).
However, when I have opened iphoto, it asks if I want to upgrade - which I let it do. This upgrade has now been at the spinning wheel for 6 days. I am going to let it continue for another day but I am not hopeful.
I think that iphoto is the only thing that is corrupted.
The new IMAC, didn't come with a start up disk
- how do I delete the iphoto database and start again?
- I want to try and recover from an earlier version of my iphoto database from timemachine and then add in the photos I am missing?
- failing that, create a new iphoto database and load from other copies that I have (this will just take a long time as some online, some on disk etc)
any assistance with this appreciated.

Since it's all about iPhoto, I'd recommend posting in the dedicated iPhoto discussion forum, where it's more likely that you'll find help.

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