Unique duplicate photo problem

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~David
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I have seen a few posts on duplicate photos, but have a slightly different situation from the topics that i could find. when i origionally got my computer i transfered all of my photos that i had organized with my own folders into the 'pictures' folder of my account. when i opened iphoto for the first time, it went through some setup hooplah, and then a majority of these photos ended up in my library... no problem. i have continued to add photos on my own, directly into foldes, without using iphoto, over the course of about a year. i did this indirectly, usually putting them in a folder on another computer, and adding the folder with a flash drive (i.e. no wizard for importing). therefore, at this point, i had more photos in my pictures folder than in my iphoto. Not a big deal. Now, a few months ago, i discovered how i can import photos directly into my iphoto library with my camera, without this intermediate method, and i have had no problems with it. and i also have no 'duplicate photos' within iphoto. HOWEVER it is only recently that i noticed a folder (pictures/iphoto library/modified and pictures/iphoto library/origionals) that has the files on my computer again, seperate from my already organized folders. So i have most of my pictures from previous years on my computer twice, because of the option "copy files to iphoto library folder when adding to library" which now, after the damage has been done, is unchecked . Now, the main gist of my question is this... how can i delete the duplicated iphoto pictures in the iphoto library folder (because the origionals are already organized in my pictures) and not delete the photos that i recently imported directly with iphoto. (i realize i can do this picture by picture, but its 3k+ photos, and i dont have that kind of time ). i read about iphotodiet and duplicate annhialator, but these both seem to be dealing with duplicates within iphoto, or deleting the origional and putting the file into the iphoto library: whereas i would like to delete the copies in the iphoto library folder, replace them with links to the origionals, and keep my origionals!!! lengthy, and hopefully solvable perdicament :/
i am open to any help of any kind!
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