Duplicates in lightroom

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duplicates in lightroom
Leni - 05:54pm Mar 1, 2008 Pacific
Just imported photos into lightroom and found many duplicates. is there an easy way to get rid of duplicates?
I am looking for an automation method of doing this.
Imac 24, 2gigs ram, 750mb h.d., 2.8Ghz intel processor using Photoshop Lightroom 1.31

I just had to restore from a failed Buffalo RAID unit, and was a bit shocked to find that, when I reimported with 'remove suspected duplicates', it hardly worked at all, and I wound up with all the 'missing' entries still there, and duplicates of most everything.
So I tried 'locate' for a missing one, thinking find other missing nearby. Fails, because it won't allow two images with the same name (although there are two), and won't look for others.
I expect better tools from Adobe in Lightroom. I'm using Mac, and as a pro photographer, this will lead me to see if Aperture from Apple is smarter.
Adobe should provide smart search capabilities to help us weed out duplicates. What is there now is not very helpful.

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