Duplicate finder including also external hard disks, on mavericks any

Hello,
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...)
Can somebody recommend a good Duplicate Finder, which searchs and compares also data from external hard-drives? Is Gemini a good choice?
And I´m also looking for a clever Photo Duplicate Finder , found this one:
DuplicatePhotoCleaner
https://www.duplicatephotocleaner.com
would this be a good choice?
Thanks for Help

DuplicatePhotoCleaner lists thrumbnails and modified photos along with the originals and makes it difficult to see what you got. I feel it would be better used on folders of photos and not on an iPhoto Library.
You can use one of these applications to identify and remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
iPhoto Library Manager - $29.95
Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free
Duplicate Annihilator - $7.95 - only app able to detect duplicate thumbnail files or faces files when an iPhoto 8 or earlier library has been imported into another.
PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
DeCloner - $19.95 - can find dupicates in iPhoto Libraries or in folders on the HD.
In my testing with a test library with duplicate photos installed PhotoSweeper found more duplicates than any other app when comparing the bitmaps.
My second choice would be iPhoto Library Manager as it's the best all around iPhoto utility available.
OT

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