Inability to revert to original in iPhoto

I edited a JPEG photo in iPhoto (cropped).  However later and after editing some other photos, I decided to revert the first photo to its original version. However, the option Photo>Revert to original button was not lit. In the Quick Fixes tab of the Edit pane, the “Revert to Original” was similary not lit and nor was the “Revert to Previous”.  It appears therefore that I am unable to trevert the photo. Any ideas?

That worked fine.  I have gone back through my library and the issue appears to relate to some (but not all) photos that I brought across from my old iMAC (Power PC) which used iPhoto '06 and onto my new iMAC purchased in the summer of this year and running Lion plus iPhoto '11.  Photos uploaded since are all fine.  All data from the old machine was copied across using the Mac transfer facility for new machines.  Interesting that the issue relates to old photos pre the new MAC - some that I know I edited now no longer permit revert to original.  Also, if I amend them further, these changes are saved so that, again, I cannot revert to original. Looks like an issue relating to the way these files were brought across and are being saved in iPhoto '11.

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