How can I delete all photos and redo transfer

In a nut shell: Bought a new iMac. Transferred all data over from my old iMac. Must have goofed it up because I ended up with triplicates of every photo in iPhoto. Ran two different photo dulpicate destroying plug-ins. Still left with, literally, thousands of duplicate photos in all manner of formats. I would like to delete entire photo library and redo transfer from old machine. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Drag it to the Trash and empty it.
Next time
To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Simply copy the iPhoto Library from the Pictures Folder on the old Machine to the Pictures Folder on the new Machine.
Then launch iPhoto. That's it.
This moves photos, events, albums, books, keywords, slideshows and everything else.

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