Why does Aperture want to update my Library on Exit?

I recently completed constructing a new Library from several Libraries on different hard drives. The new Library (referenced) consolidates all my 2012 images. After finishing my last Library merge (merging a 95K image Library, 750 GB) and relocating the masters, I clicked the exit command.
The program immediately gave me the drop-down tab at the top informing me it was Updating Library, and started with 1 of some 2.1 million items. At about one second per item on my anemic MacPro, I did some quick mental math and force quit the application. (There are maybe 350K images in the Library anyway, not 2.1 million)
Any ideas why it is trying to "update" the new Library item by item? All of the source Libraries were fully updated to 3.2.4. prior to being consolidated.
I can avoid the updating by using the switch command to go to another library. Is there any reason to believe that repairing the Library would eliminate the updating behavior?
Thanks in advance for your insights.
Gordon

Hi Gordon,
I still think your best path forward is:
- _Rebuild_ Library
- Close Aperture
- Let it run at least 24 hours.
Often the initial time estimates (by computer or observer ) are inaccurate due to extrapolating from a non-representative data set. iStatMenu (or similar, including the OS X Activity Monitor) may give some insight into what (if anything) Aperture is doing. Be sure to have a lot of free disk space (> 50 GB is my rule-of-thumb for huge Aperture Libraries) on your system drive.
Obviously, 20 days is too long to let it run. I have never had a Library run any task without finishing longer than 90 hours. (That was with a test Library that is: >6,000,000 files, >600,000 Images, > 1 TB.)
IME, the database handling and maintenence of Aperture is superb. The limitation in Library size seems to be the time it takes to do some administrative tasks.
Keep us posted.
(Added:)
You might also try turning off Faces. This was useful with earlier 3.x versions, but was, afaict, cured by 3.2. I suspect that Aperture does some work on the Faces database without reporting that in the Activity window.
--Kirby.
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