Launching iphoto on an old profile

I'm running iPhoto 9.4.3 on a profile saved from an old imac to a new pentium imac but i cannot access iphoto. I have downloaded iphoto library upgrader as suggested but I am still unable to launch iphoto in the old profile

An old profile? are you trying ot upgrade an old iPhoto library to iPhoto '11? If so then you need to execute the upgrader then l,aunch iPhoto and have it upgrad your library
LN

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