My IPhoto crashes during database converting after last update .... help!!!!

Question

After last update, IPHOTO started to converting images database. After step 5/9 it is hanging up. What I can do?????
Please help, i have mora than 100Gb of images and no acces to them.
TomekP

Answer 1

You might want to look at an earlier thread (link) about this issue, I also had the same issue with step 9 of 9 and 5 of 9 and this was my solution:
"Had the same issue with the never ending and faulty update to iPhoto 9.3.  I got so frustrated that I ended up getting rid of iPhoto 9.3 and restoring my iPhoto to version 9.2.3.
You can do this by(1) erasing iPhoto from your computer from the applications folder and (2) reloading iPhoto from your iLife '11 DVD.  When I did this I got overzealous and accidentally erased previous versions of the iPhoto updates as well.  This was easy to correct by going to http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_site.psp.more&locale=e n_US&q=iPhoto and reloading the 9.1 and 9.2.3 iPhoto updates.  Once I restored 9.2.3 -- the version prior to 9.3 -- I was able to see my photos again.
iPhoto 9.3 is obviously faulty if it cannot finish updating.  I called Apple support and visited the "genius" bar and was told twice that they had never heard of this issue.  Please call Apple support and voice your problems so that someone in the iPhoto software development team will eventually become aware of this problem."