Rebuilding photos on HD

Hi there,
I have had much drama with my photo library and iphoto, and am trying to rebuild my library on my hard drive so I can re-import it into iphoto. I deleted all of my other libraries because I had duplicates, empty folders, etc., so I just started over bringing everything in from an external drive. I have a folder ready now with the fresh library, but want to know if i should be getting rid of all images in my pictures folder to prevent more duplicates? For example, there are images in recovered photos, modified photos, data. I wanted to delete these and just copy my new library into the originals folder and get rid of the rest to avoid duplicates again. Is this ok? I don't want to mess anything up but want to start "clean" I guess. Any input much appreciated. Thanks!
Sarah

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