Help - Deleting Duplicates in iPhoto library (iPhoto 5 vers. 5.0.4 (263)

I have a huge amount of duplicate photos in my libraries which are stored on an external hard drive(MyBook). For some reason every verticle photo has at least one duplicate.
Is there a fast way to delete all duplicates or does this have to be done manually? I have over 50,000 photos in my libraries which would make this extremely time consuming. (My original MyBook had been been trashed by a power surge so I had a professional recapture the pictures onto a new MyBook which took about 4 days to transfer all the pictures.) I also just downloaded upgrades for my software before starting to delete pictures and I don't know if this verticle photo duplicate problem is related to upgrading. There are also a few duplicate pictures where one is upside down and the other is correct.

Dog Art
Welconme to the Apple user discussions forum
it sounds like you are looking directly inside the iPhoto library using the finder
Are you? Or are you seeing these duplicates in the iPhoto program?
It is strongly recommended that you do not delete, move or other wise modify the contents of the iPhoto library using the finder or any program other than iPhoto (or an iPhoto aware program like iPhoto Library Manager)
If you are seeing them in the iPhoto program then it is likely that you imported a previous library - it sounds like you do not have a back up of your iPhoto library (shame on you ) which you must start doing if you value your 50,000 photos - Stuff (including power surges) happens - and an external HD is less expensive than a data recovery service . If this is the case then Duplicate annihilator is a good choice
LN
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