Upgrade photo library

Upgraded to Mavericks and latest iPhoto 9.5.1. Told Photo Library needs to be upgraded to work with this version and it would take up to 3 hrs. I hit the Quit button thinking I would be able to do it the next session but I can't. I don't want to lose my albums.
Can anyone tell me how to do the upgrade having once refused it?

It sounds like you got a new version of iPhoto when you went from Tiger to Snow Leopard. This will need to update the library for the new version. So, update first. You won't be able to do anything with iPhoto until you do.
Regards
TD

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wrightc7294 wrote:
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Csound1 wrote:
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
My take on what is supposed to happen is that the data is stored in Apple's iCloud server no matter how you put it there.
That's correct but your 10.6.8 machine has no way to put it there unless you manually enter it on the website.
That to sync data from iCal and Address Book in Snow Leopard to the iCloud server you must manually register and connect to the iCloud.com website which I have done.
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PeterBreis0807 wrote:
My take on what is supposed to happen is that the data is stored in Apple's iCloud server no matter how you put it there.
That to sync data from iCal and Address Book in Snow Leopard to the iCloud server you must manually register and connect to the iCloud.com website which I have done.
The syncing to the same data in Mountain Lion is done via the System Preferences > iCloud, which I have done.
Supposedly that means the data on the iCloud server is then shared between the iPod Touch, SL and ML, but it is not.
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But the problem exists on ML as well.
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What you are seeing is probably from SL account which I use 95% of the time. Particularly my Address Book entries. I hardly entered any of those in ML, they virtually all come from SL and seem to have transferred previously. Possibly before the latest iOS updates, but I can't swear to that as I didn't check before/after.
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The other part of the upgrade message was a warning that once you upgraded you would no longer be able to open the library with the old version which is exaclty what you did and what happened when you choose to continue
The iphoto library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto. Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iphoto after the upgrade. The upgrade process may take several minutes depending on the number of photos in the library. Cancel or upgrade.
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iMac 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Early 2009) with 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Ram, 1 TB HD.
Just installed OS X Yosemite and iPhoto 9.6. I didn't run iPhoto immediately after instal, but my wife did while I was gone. She told me later that iPhoto didn't work and that when she clicked iPhoto, it asked to fix the permissions and after a bit iPhoto became unresponsive so she shut down the computer.
When I opened it, it asked to upgrade the library to work with the new version of iPhoto. Clicked ok and let it run...it did not last more than 5 minutes. When trying to open iPhoto now, it pauses for a second, then it displays the initial first time use splash screen (yellow sticky that says how to add photos to iPhoto).
The photo library in the finder shows it to be 230GB which is about the size I remember it to be. Showing the package contents I can see all of the photos in the "old masters" folder.
I have tried the following:
- Re-boot
- Repairing disk permissions (from recovery mode)
- Reset PRAM
- deleted and re-installed iPhoto
- Utilised all the options in the iPhoto Library First Aid (all take about 1 second to complete)
- Ran iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild photo library (took under a minute)
I have another copy of the library in another folder as well as an online backup (but all have been updated with the problem library so I don't think that will help much). As we speak, I am doing a local backup of the photos to an external drive just in case something further were to happen or I need to do a clean instal (don't think I can wait to have all of that download from the online backup).
So if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.
1. Is there anything else I can do to save the database before having to just pull all of the photos out of the library and losing all of the metadata?
2. If thats all there is to do, what is easiest and best way to do manually or automate this...and to retain as much of the metadata as possible?

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