Starting again with iphoto

hi, i have been trying to deal with a messy problem with iphoto and had to start my library all over again. My pictures are saved to my hard disk and i need to reimport them to my new iphoto library, however there are many many many duplicates of each photo (i originally had around 5000 photos and somehow this has increased to 26000) and i want only to import one of each. can anyone help? i know that when importing photo's in to an album and one photo already exists in the library it will ask if you want to import the duplicate, but because nothing is in the library at the moment it dose not seam to recognise a duplicate. Is there a way i can do this?

Later versions of iPhoto have a feature that helps avoid importing duplicates. Other than that there are various apps that will search for duplicate files, and you can try them on the images before importing them to iPhoto. TidyUp is one but there are others. Search on MacUpdate
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TD

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You don't need to re-install iPhoto, just change the library - and you may not even need to do that.
1. You can easily recreate your Directory structure in iPhoto. Simply start at the bottom of your structure and drag a folder of images to the Source (or left hand) pane of the iPhoto Window. iPhoto will create an Album of the same name. The create your enclosing folders (File -> New Folder) and drag the albums to it. This way you can quickly recreate what you have/
2. The other user of the files can access them directly via the iPhoto Window or a Media Browser such as THIS. The advantage of this system is that your directory structure is available to them ina convenient and recognisable way. They can then drag the pics from the iPhoto Window / Media Browser to the app they as the need. (A whole lot faster than fumbling around in Folder after Folder etc, plus the advantage of keyword searching.)
3. Is this necessary for working with an editor? You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. Btw this is the only way that edits made in iPhoto will be visible in iPhoto.
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