Duplicate finder in Lightroom

Is there any easy way to find duplicates in Lightroom that really works? Also, my pictures in LIghtroom were identified with the typical Lightroom file extension which in my case was the date etc. Somehow I did something that coased the market to change to show the make of my particular camera. Anyway to change that back and what did I do to cause this to happen?

As to the duplicates....I had 3 computers fail back to back. I backup files every couple of days but on one of the computers files were corrupted and we had to just do a basic data dump so when files were restored a file was created that just contained pictures, no longer attaced to specific folders or even sorted by date. Then in subsequent failures the files were restored off of the external hard drive. This created a picture library that now containes over 20,000 pictures. Most of those are dulpicates, triplicates and in some cases quads. I have been slowly sorting through this mess and just wonder if there is any easier way do get through the pictures. Does it make sense to clean up the library in File Explorer and then let the sorted pictures populate Lightroom? Is any of this making any sense to you? I am so disgusted right now that I am ready to wipe out the every picture that exsists on this computer and start over by loading every XD and SD card I have saved. No, I do not reuse my cards specifically due thanks to computer company that provided me with computer that failed all in a timeframe of less than 6 months.
2nd issue- When you are in Lightroom and you have your pictures dislpayed on the screen in Library mode....under each picture Lightroom would assign the date, in my case under the picture would be 20130320-20130320-IMG_3090.jpg but now what is showing under each picture is Canon Powershot SX20IS. I am sure this is a setting or filter but I am still very new to Lightroom and don't know what I did.

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Thank you both! I ended up going for DupeGuru because it was free and it worked well. Easy Duplicate Finder baited me with the promise of free download then when the search was over I got the "buy the software" if I wanted to delete more than 10 files.
DupeGuru worked well and so far I have not been asked for money.
This solves my question.

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1 - if you want to remove duplicates from your iPhoto library you would not be using a copy of it
2 - don't do anything without a good, current backup
3 - reading the Duplicate Finder web site does not tell me tha tit is safe to use on the iPhoto library - i suggest you use one of the known good and tested duplicate eliminations programs - see this discussion for links - https://discussions.apple.com/message/24363132#24363132
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Try this one > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/duplicate-cleaner-for-iphoto/id586862299?mt=12
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I´m new here. Anmdmy english is probably sometimes at least a little strange , so my apologies...
Since this year I´ve updated my MacBookPro to Mavericks, and now I´m slowly adapting to all the changes > mainly the new apps/programms but also wondering how I can synchronize mycalendar and contacts etc... without the cloud ( I keep being very suspicious regardless several discussions i already had during some one-to-one sessions in the applestore...)
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