So many duplicates help?

I have thousands of files that i have made duplicates for back up
they are spread across many drives. So I took all the photos on all my drives and combined them into one folder with many sub-folders. My plan is to eliminate all the duplicates from this folder on a single drive. Than I plan to start fresh and import into aperture. A few questions I tried using tidy up
however it doesn't seem to catch all the duplicates. Once I get everything cleaned up do you suggest letting apreture handle my files or do it manually. I am afraid if I use aperture and the main file gets corrupt I will be screwed. Should I add meta data before importing or import everything and than add the data? Or should i load everthing into iphoto first. What a mess I have over 60,000 files.

In terms of legacy Aperture, I think not. It's important to Apple, just more important to us seemingly in terms of RAW support. But I don't see Apple walking away from it.
Even if they did, it is easy to select whole groups of images and export either the original masters (untouched) or the edited versions.
If you hold the original masters in folders on disk and "reference" them from Aperture, then migrating the masters to any other app. is simple. Getting the edited versions to another app., whether managed or referenced is by export version (after selecting the version(s) in the Aperture browser) to a folder on disk. Again simple.
That's the images and edited versions. The camera info. is held in the image file so that's OK.
The really challenging "stuff" is the edit information (+.5 exposure, +.2 Sat, -.1 contrast etc.) and metadata. The edit commands are proprietary to Aperture's engine so are unusable elsewhere. The metadata can be exported. I've never done this but I believe it goes out in XML sidecar files. However, the program you read it into may understand it or not. As I note, probably challenging.
As for Vault, if managed library, it backs up all masters, versions and previews - but not thumbnails to save on space. If referenced, it backs up versions and previews only .... you have to backup the referenced masters yourself.
Deleting dups. is rather simple but tedious. They'll sort together if they are from camera on image date. Then simply <Cmd>-Click on the dups. (I do a page or so at a time) and then delete.

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FYI: I also see:
Re: deleting duplicates in iphoto
Nov 22, 2011 11:35 AM (in response to jennymnky)
For dealing with duplicates in iPhoto check out Duplicate Annihilator
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The video looks great, if it is believeable. Cheers, C

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