Iphoto help - duplicate libraries with duplicate pictures

i am in need of some serious help!!!!
in an effort to clean up my pics in iphoto i now have multiple iphoto libraries with many duplicate pictures in these libraries
this is wasting space on my mac and im pretty sure its the rason my mac is sooooo slow
can anyone out there help me??
thanks =)

I agree with Larry in that use the paid version of iPLM to merge A with B into X with the preference in iPLM set to not import duplicates. The merge X with C into Y. Y should then have all of your photos without duplicates. After each merge check the merged library to make sure it has all of the photos of the two libraries you're merging before deleting those two libraries.
NOTE: some photos may have different names and dates but be duplicates and would not be caught in the process. If there are any there shouldn't be many.
OT

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