Advice/howto on disorganised photos that need to be imported into Aperture

I have about 5-6 years of photos that are in different folders across my backup hard drives that I want to import into Aperture.
There are many duplicates as I had working folders that I copied periodically onto external drives into dated backup folders. When the working folders filled up, I'd delete older files to make space, knowing that I had the files backed up. I didn't perform any type of file management. Hence the backup folders contain duplicate files.
i.e.
Feb 03 backup folder contains files for Feb 03
Mar 03 backup folder contains files for Feb 03 and Mar 03
Apr 03 backup folder contains files for Feb 03, Mar 03 and Apr 03
I then run out of room on the working drive, so delete the files from Feb 03 to free space.
May 03 backup folder contains files for Mar 03, Apr 03 and May 03.
I now want to import all the files from the backup folders into Aperture, but know there will be many duplicates. Is there any way I can manage the import such that I prune out duplicates across the folders? Either within Aperture or using an external program/script. These are all original files that have not been edited.
Thanks,
Phil B.

Thanks for the advice.
I actually searched the archives after I asked the question and this comes up a lot.
I'm currently trying MrClean as a solution to delete duplicates first, and if that does not work out, will try Tidy Up!
Regards,
Phil B.

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