IPhoto duplicated my RAW files to jpeg

I ran out of space on my computer half way thorugh an import, after creating space I had to restart the import, it imported the photos that it copied off the card but has duplicated all of them with a JPEG copy. I only want the RAW files other wise im wasting a lot of space!
How can I get rid the the JPEG duplicates.
Thanks
Chris

If you ran out of space during an import this is the least of your problems.
OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.
Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially.
Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do. Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk.
When you import a Raw to iPhoto it automatically creates a Jpeg preview of the shot. You can't stop ths. The solution is to have more space.

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