View original Files in Finder

Hello,
I just updated from iPhoto 5 to iPhoto 6 and I have a little problem:
when I right-click on a thumbnail (Ctrl+click) of my library, the option "View original in the Finder" appear in grey ... so I have to go myself in the Finder to retreive the original file...
Can somebody help me?
Tks,
Lins
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