Moving FINDER files without Dupes TRICK

I got on the phone with a mac help guy and he came up with a method for finding all my images on my hard drive or all my movies on my hard drive (came from windows) - by opening spotlight, entering something like "test" in the search box, clicking add and pulling down to images, and then removing the "test" so that I was now looking at all the images on my hard drive.
What I am trying to figure out is:
If I put a folder on my hard drive "Images" and I drag and drop all of these (i.e. MOVE them) from their former location to this folder - I almost always get a prompt that says:
There is an item named "whatever.avi" already exists in this location. Do you want to replace it with the one you're moving?"
[ ] Apply to All
Don't Replace
Stop
Replace
In the past I have clicked Apply to All and Replace and I am wondering if hitting Apply to All and DON'T REPLACE will instead give me all the files with NO DUPES with perhaps the extra step of having to DELETE whatever remains in the Spotlight Finder window.
Anybody get this that is able to give specifics as to whether this will work?
Thanks.

I just tried this with 800 files.
It moved 357 to the new folder and left the original 800 in the old folder.
I wonder if I can delete the 800 now and know I have not lost anything...
Thanks,
Jonathan

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