HEEELP, how on earth can I see what the content on my Time Capsule??

Hi,
I have recently switched from PC to Apple and bought a MacBook Air and a 2TB Time Capsule (although been using ios for yonks)
I have trawled a gzillion forums trying to find a way to view all my stuff (photos mainly) on the Time Capsule .. but I'm getting nowhere fast!
When I use Finder, I can see the my TC in the 'Shared' section, but when I click through, I keep getting to something called 'SparseBundle' but cant actually see my stuff .. it is driving me nuts!
Does anyone out there know how to solve this problem?
Surely it shouldn't be this hard to do something so simple .. should it?

Time Machine does not store the files in the same format that is used on the actual computer drive.. you cannot just use a photo from TM backup.. and you are likely not to be able to see individual photos in the library at all. The backup has to be restored to an alternative location and then you will need to open the library from there.
See pondini and read about how TM works.
http://pondini.org/TM/Works.html
For the particular issue with iphoto permissions.
http://pondini.org/TM/E9.html
Go to top menu and read though the FAQ and the home page for the first nuts and bolts stuff.
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
If you are trying to locate the photo library on the TC it is fraught with danger.. the TC has no internal backup mechanism.. other than a manually started full disk backup to usb drive.. very slow and TC cannot be used while it works.

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