Cant get time iphoto pictures from my portable harddrive time machine backup

Hi
I m trying to get my photos from a Time Machine backup on a portable hard drive. When i get to the pictures folder and press it I get the "iphoto (original)" icon. When I press it I get the iphoto screen but a "Caution" box comes up that says "the iphoto library is a Time MAchine Backup and so cannot be used as the main library. Reopen iphoto with the option key held down to choose another library". You have to press "quit" to get out which takes you back to the iphoto (original) icon. I have tried opening with the option key held down but I get the same pop us caution. Can anyone help. Thanks

Time Machine does nto simply copy files - it copies changes to files and keeps track of how to reassemble the files on request for a specific time
So you NEVER access TM backups directly - you always use the Time Machine program and have it restore the backup
see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US for details on TM operation and http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html for FAQs
LN

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