Trouble accessing 2nd Library

I have two Aperture Libraries, call it L1 and L2. They are on Mac Pro (two 2.8 GHz Quad core, Memory 14GB) with LionOS and the most recent version of Apertur 3, L1 is on HD2 (1TB) and L2 is on a separate HD3 (1.5TB). I started the second library (L2) because L1 grew to 905GB and I was running out of disk space. Most of the time I work with L2 which has all of 2012 images. Last Tuesday I wanted to work on a project in L1 and I went to switch the library. Previously, this was a fairly quick process but this time a box showed up saying "Upgrading Library:Scanning Library". I knew this was not good. Aperture is still scanning for over 24hrs. I tried quitting aperture, restarted MacPro, switched back to L2 and to a 3rd blank library to make sure Aperture can still access a Library. Do I let the upgrading proces run its course? Are ther other options? Is something broken? How do I get into L1, it contains most of my images? Thank you in advance.
Aib

Aib,
upgrading a large Aperture Library to version 3.3.2 can take a very long time. Do you see any progress in the Activity Viewer (Window > Show Activity)? Or are there diagnostic messages in the Console window?
If you do see no progress at all quit/force quit Aperture and try the Aperture Library First Aid Tools:
Repairing and Rebuilding your Library
Start with "Rebuilding the Database" and then try to upgrade again. also repair the permissions.
Regards
Léonie

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