Organizing with photoshop elements 7 - help!

i have about 15,000 photos scattered between my C drive, D drive, and an external hard drive. in nemerous attempts to organize and back them up, i have accidentaly made copies of many of them. 3 or 4 copies, in some cases. can i use elements 7 as a filter to run all these pictures through and have just one copy, all on an external hard drive? how do i do it? if i can't, does anyone have any suggestions?

Wrong forum. Please post in the PSE forum.
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