Photos stalled in preparing library during first use

I am using an early 2009 iMac, 3.06 GHz intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR2 memory and 190 GB free storage. OS X 10.10.3. Photos 1.0 is being used for the first time and has been at 71% complete preparing library for several hours. I presume it has stalled, what should I do?

Is there any CPU activity at all? I'd leave it. You have a relatively slow machine, all things considered. If it hasn't moved any more after a couple days, then consider doing something about it.

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