My aperture library is a mess. How do I get rid of all the duplicates? I'm feeling rather disgusted by the whole thing at the moment.

I've been using Aperture 3 for a few months, and I'm thouroughly dismayed by the mess the library has become. I have so many duplicates, and there doesn't seem to be a good, efficient way to sort them out. With other files, if I move a new file to a folder that already contains a file by that name, I receive a message to that effect. Aperture offers no help. Like a glutton it just gobbles up every picture file, file from Photo Stream, and I don't know where else. I'm feeling rather disgusted by the whole mess. I've tried Aperture Duplicate Annihilator - what a waste of time. Can I get to a photo directory that would allow me to eliminate the duplicates and errant thumbnails by hand? That seems like an awful lot of work, but short of just deleting the entire lot, I don't know what to do.
Thanks,
Stephen

I have the same problem. I just switched from iPhoto to Aperture 3.
My library has about 40,000 photos - and thousands of them are duplicates.
But here is my question for the community. When I view "info" on my photos, I notice that the "project path" tags vary - or the badges vary. I have a vague feeling that this has to do with having an original file, then one version being created for the "faces" function, and another version indicating the photo is in a project, and another version indicating the photo is in a slideshow, etc. etc. But why can I find that sequentially, there are two copies of at least a hundred consecutive photos?
Is there any harm in deleting the duplicate "versions" - am I jeopardizing the original?
Help. This doesn't make sense to me.

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