Need help: deleting duplicate photos & freeig up space

Question

when i first got my macbook pro and transferred all my photos to it from another computer, the iPhoto library was separated into 5 folders (iPhoto Library 1, 2, etc).
For whatever reason, when i opened iPhoto, there were thousands of duplicates and triplicates and even.... quadruplicates (if thats even a word)
Anyway, i had to manually delete each duplicate photo, which took hours.
the problem is, i dont feel like any memory was freed up. Reason being, my pictures folder (where the iPhoto libraries are located) is about 9 GB, while my iPhoto library with 1880 photos is only 2.7 GB.
So i'm wondering if there's a way to create a new iPhoto library using my current library of photos, and deleting all those extra libraries in my Pictures folder, without in the process deleting any more photos (that aren't extras)

Answer 1

Max Good:
I'm guessing you imported each of the other iPhoto libraries into the current one by dragging the entire folder into the open iPhoto window (or selecting the iPhoto Folder to import). That brings in all of the thumbnail files, modified files along with the original files. That's why you have the duplicates.
Duplicate Annihilator will remove duplicate copies of photos as long as they are the same size. So it will remove duplicates of the full sized images and duplicates of the small thumbnails that were imported. It may help.
If you want to restart from scratch first run Duplicate Annihilator on your current library. Then do the following:
1 - copy the Originals folder from it to the desktop.
2 - open the Originals folder and type Command-F. Set the following search criteria in the search window: Kind = Image, Size is less than 100 KB.
3 - in the Search results window will be all thumbnail sized image files. Select all of them and drag to the Trash.
4 - launch iPhoto with the Option key depressed and create a new library.
5 - drag the Originals folder from the desktop into the open iPhoto window. this will import your originals into the new library with the same rolls as the previous library (the roll dates may be different, however).
If you have keywords on the photos that you need to save you can apply Tutorial #1 after running Duplicate Annihilator and before Step 1.
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