HT201250 How do I view individual photos in iPhoto on Time Machine?

I go in to Time Machine, then Pictures and iPhoto Library but cannot open any further - is this where they should be for me to open the whole library as I can't open it?

Time Machine can't restore individual pictures on iPhoto. If you want to restore a photo from the Time Machine backup, you have to restore the whole library and you will lose recent changes.
A workaround would be to access to your Time Machine drive manually and restore the iPhoto library from the backup you want to a folder. Open a Finder window, choose your Time Machine drive in the sidebar and go to Backups.backupdb > yourcomputername > backupdate (being the date when the backup was created) > Macintosh HD (or the disk name you selected) > Users > youruserfolder > Pictures, and copy the iPhoto library to another folder. Open the old library, extract the photos and copy them to your current iPhoto library.
If you just wanted to view individual photos from an iPhoto backup you have in Time Machine, you just have to restore the iPhoto library to another folder (in case you don't want to lose your current iPhoto library)

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I have iPhoto '09 version 8.1.2 and am unable to find my photos through Time Machine. I tried following the previous discussions on how to do this but I did not find a Master's folder when searching on package contents after right clicking on iPhoto in Time Machine.
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Thanks, LN
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See the first of these:
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b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.

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For iPhoto '11 Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your iPhoto library database and see if that resolves things
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