Aperture Vault Crash

Hi

I am having some issues with Aperture currently

I'm running Mavericks, 10.9.1 and the latest Aperture (updated yesterday)

When I want to update my vault it always crashes, leaving a beachball etc. This was happening on my previous mac but put it down to it being old, now I have a new macbook pro and it is still happening.

the status bar gets about a quarter full then stops and the beachball spins forever, have tried leaving over night no luck. Have tried repairs and rebuilds but also no luck. Have also tried different drives and new vaults.

Is there anything I can do to make sure my library is being backed up?

thanks