Upgrading of photo library from iphoto 8.1.2 to 9.6

I have had my photo library running on an external disk on my old iMac with iphoto 9 (8.1.2) running. I just bought a MacBook with iPhoto 9.6 installed. I wanted to switch my external disk to the MacBook, and when I did so I got prompted with: "The photo library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of iPhoto". I clicked upgrade, and the the machine proceeded to upgrade, but with the window stuck on: "Rebuilding thumbnail cache". I am not able to connect iPhoto 9.6 with my photo library on the external disk. Any suggestions how to resolve this?

I have no backup.
<insert obligatory lecture on the importance of backing up, especially before updating anything right here>
There are no guarantees now, as the process of upgrading the Library has broken down. The break might be trivial or terminal, it's in the lap of the gods.
Quit iPhoto. That upgrade is in trouble and won't complete.
Make a back up now - at least we can stop things getting worse.
Then:
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Worth a try...

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