Photos on Hard drive

I imported about 1000 photos on my macbook pro and when i look at my all images folder it shows duplicates of all pictures and i have over 6000 photos in the folder. What can be done to clear up hard drive space on my computer.

AGAV,
OK, you "imported" them. In the absence of further information, I will assume that you imported them into iPhoto. To assist you in getting help here faster, I'll tell you that you must be very, very specific when you post your questions. Otherwise, those who might respond are shooting in the dark when trying to help. For example, what exactly do you mean by "my all images folder?" Your "Pictures" folder, in the Finder? A particular folder, otherwise known as an "Album," in iPhoto? Just what are you talking about?
Again, assuming that you imported into iPhoto, you should only have one copy of each image there. That's where you'll want to keep them (in your iPhoto "library"). Several things may have occurred to create duplicates. First, you may have moved (copied) your images to your internal hard drive before you imported them into iPhoto. If you copied them to the "Pictures" folder (exactly where you should have copied them!), then imported them into iPhoto, you will have at least 2 copies being stored on your hard drive; the copies you made, and the ones iPhoto made when importing. If this is the case, the original copies you made can be safely trashed to clear up disk space.
If the originals were stored in a library from another application, there may be "thumbnails" generated by that application that will also have been imported into iPhoto (iPhoto itself generates "previews"). There are options in iPhoto to not import duplicates when importing, but it probably wouldn't recognize a previously-generated thumbnail as a duplicate. These might be harder to find and get rid of. There's no easy solution, other than looking for them in iPhoto and deleting them.
Some further information on how you imported, and where these images are coming from, might help us figure out why duplicates were created.
Scott

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I am a new switcher, I bought a Macbook Pro last month...
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