Pse7 - copy tags to duplicate pictures

Hi,
I am in a quandry and am not sure how it happened - apparently my catalog imported the photos from the original spot and the network backup - for some reason I didn't realize it (maybe the duplicates were stacked) but I never did this.  Anyway - the problem I have is that many photos are tagged (and I thought that the tags were all on the initial copy) now I have discovered that the tags could be on one copy or the other.  Is there an easy way to copy the tags from one picture to another if they are duplicates.  Once I do this then I would like to remove the duplicates from the catalog.
Hopefully this makes sense.
Thanks in advance.

There is no automatic way to do this in PSE -- you have to do it manually, photo by photo, tag by tag.
If you're talking about hundreds or thousands of photos, you could download the free Exiftool to copy all the metadata from the duplicates back to the originals.  But expect to spend at least an hour or two, probably much more if you're not comfortable with command-line programs or know much about photo metadata.

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