Can I delete my originals?

This might be a bit of a stupid question, and apologies if it is.
Upon buying my iMac, I imported all my photos from my windows PC. They're now all still on my harddrive, in the folders they were in already. However, my iPhoto library is a fair couple of GB, so I'm assuming that they're all in there +as well.+
Can I delete the folders with the originals and just have my iPhoto library? Seems daft having them on my harddrive twice.

Yes - unless you have modified the default setting in the advanced iPhoto preferences to "copy imported items to the iPhoto library" - it is recommended that you not change this preference
LN

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schmorrell wrote:
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