Struggling with upgrading library to 3.1

Earlier when I tried to upgrade to 3.1, the library conversion failed. I was able to restore the previous version of Aperture and the library using Time Machine.
This week I tried again to upgrade to 3.1.1 and the same thing happened (very sad), but now I'm not able to restore successfully via Time Machine. (Separate issue that I'm working on...)
Does anyone have any suggestions about what I can do to successfully make it through this upgrade and library conversion?

dreasilva wrote:
Last try at restoring from TM a no go.
How are you trying to restore from TM?
FWIW,
With the Aperture library, you need to move the current library on your machine out of the location it resides in (assuming it is the same as location in the TM backup) - then use TM from the same Finder folder and restore the library to that location. This prevents issues with the backup trying to deal with not over-writing the current library.
If this simple procedure is not working, then I agree with Ernie and not attempting retrieval from TM would be best. There should not be any permission issues with the TM copy / restore function in this instance.
Note - I have done this procedure on my machine a number of times without issue to test the backup system with Aperture.
Sorry for any intrusion.

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