IPhoto and TimeMachine

Since iPhoto 9.1.5 release, iPhoto can't restaure a single photo from a TimeMachine backup anymore. The only solution is to restaure the whole iPhotoLibrary.
I thought it was a bug that Apple would rapidly fix, but I've just read this support page:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4754?viewlocale=en_US
which shows that this is a deliberate choice made by Apple (this "browse backups" feature is'nt supported by iPhoto 9.1.5 or later!)
I don't understand why such a usefull feature has been killed!
and as a piece of information, this unability to browse a Timemachine backup is not a Lion specific issue. On my Macs running SnowLeopard, this feature has disappeared too!
(I'm currently restauring iPhoto 9.1.4)

iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback
Regards
TD

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it automatically restored my IPhoto Library to that time.
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ut it appears that all of the backup Iphoto libraries have read and write access.
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Grant
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1. You know that iPhoto can do all this.
2. You can sort by Date -> View Menu -> Sort Photos.
3. You can search by date -> Click on the Search icon and select calendar. Then you can find all the pics from any day, month or year
4. You can search by date using Smart Albums too.
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6. No there is no way to export back to your previous system. It's gone. You could have easily imported while mirroring that system, but it's too late for that now.
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Regards
TD

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The iPhoto Library is a Time Machine backup, and so cannot be used as the main library. Relaunch iPhoto with <option> key held down to choose another   library.
You can have an iPhoto library on an external drive and use it from different machines
and you can have a Time Machine backup
The two can not be on the same volume - and iPhoto can not access the TM backup - it must be restored to use it
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