Cleaning up edited photo files

I have just joined the forum and reviewed 30 pages of topics without finding this covered, although I did learn a lot.
After doing numerous edits to RAW files, which were saved a TIFF, I decided to use JPEG instead to conserve disk space. To make sure I had replaced all of the TIFF files with JPEGs, I went back and looked for the them in finder and noticed that some were still there, even though I had a newer JPEG version.
In some cases, after changing the setting to save edits in JPEG and going back to the original and re-editing it the TIFF file was automatically deleted, but in other cases it wasn't, as in this example:
Original = DSC_0150.RAW, plus the edited DSC01501.jpg and leftover DSC_150.tif all exist. In some cases there are even DSC_xxx-1 and DSC_xxx-2 versions.
My question is how do I eliminate these left over TIFF files that I no longer want?

Are these tiff files that were created when you edited the RAW file and then saved as a new file? If they were not saved to the Desktop and imported as a new file but were just saved they would be located somewhere in the library package but iPhoto would not know they existed.
Give Terence's suggestion of backing up and then deleting the tiff file via the Finder and see what happens.

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