HT4927 I have OS 10.7.5 and iPhoto 11 -9.4.2 . My iPhoto is (was) split into 7 libraries created via iPhoto Buddy . Two libraries are now missing marked n/a in Buddy. Exactly how may I restore these 2 specific libraries from Time Machine.

I am looking for simple step by step assistance to restore 2 missing and important (to me) libraries in iPhoto via Time Machine.
Used iPhoto Buddy to create 8 libraries and this worked well until yesterday. Now these missing libraies are just marked n/a. The other 6 appear OK.
Don't resally know what I'm doing with Time Machine it has just sat there on a separate hard drive backing up... never had to call on it before.
Thanks for any help - about 6000 images missing.

Using Time Machine
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