How to back up/import my photos when I have saved them messily?

I currently use Aperture as follows:
1.Save from memory card to file on computer called photos (each card is labelled seperatley in a sub folder)
2.Import photos I want to manage into aperture (this then makes duplicte copy of the photo in my aperture library, right?)
I use an external hardrive as an apple time machine to back all this up.
My problem is that due to having duplicate copies of the master photos (one saved in my folder structure, on in the aperture library), my harddisk is now full.
I have no list of which files I have saved into aperture and which I haven't, and I have used different names for the projects in aperture as I have used in my folder sytem.
I thought I could solve the problem by saving my masters (the ones not saved in aperture) onto the external disk, Delete the  entire aperture library, and then reimport my whole library from the external disk into Aperture.
This would free up about 300gb of space on my hard disk, as it was always a daft idea to keep two copies of the same photo on the same disk.
However, if I do this, I lose all of the adjustments I have made to the photos I have in aperture!
Any ideas welcome.
p.s, I am living in a place where it isn't easy or cost effective to buy a bigger harddisk.

Very first thing:
2.Import photos I want to manage into aperture (this then makes duplicte copy of the photo in my aperture library, right?)
This may or may not be true depending on how you did the import. But you need to make very sure that this is the case before you start deleting things.
There are three possibilities, one you left the masters where they were when you imported, they are then referenced masters in Aperture, two you copied the images into the Aperture library, they are managed in Aperture and still exist on the HD outside of Aperture and three you moved them into Aperture when you imported, they are managed in Aperture and no longer exist on the HD outside of Aperture.
Should you have done the last then if you delete the Aperture library the masters will be gone.

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