Is there a way to remove duplicates from all iphoto albums at once rather than one by one

I have somehow copied many photos and want to clean up my iphoto albums.  does anyone have info if this is possible.

1.  There are 3rd party programs that do this...I don't know of any free ones.  When I had this problem, I ended up deleting the duplicates, one by one, as I didn't have that many to deal with. 
2.  However when I asked this same question a long time ago, I was told a really nifty trick (for iPhoto 8).
First create a folder on the Desktop (I name mine "photos") and Drag/Drop or Copy the photos from the camera or source folder (could be on hard drive) into the Desktop folder named "photos".  Then using iPhoto, import the photos from the Desktop folder.  As it imports, iPhoto checks if the photos are duplicates and gives you choice to import the dupes or not.  This has saved me countless times. 

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