My picture folders are a mess help

[liquorice]

due to some pictures going missing for no reason on my PC , when I moved them to my new imac 1st of all iphoto imported them into its own folder which I had managed to move off the SSD before it put them there.
I then put the Elements trial software on as am thinking of using it, that then created its own folder of the Photos on the SSD drive which luckily is large enough as My Photo's which is a mixture of Raw and Jpeg comes it around 100GB.
So I now seem to have about 4 copies of my pictures and don't really want to sort them photo by photo
So is there an easier way to sort the duplicates ?

 

[salacious]

due to some pictures going missing for no reason on my PC , when I moved them to my new imac 1st of all iphoto imported them into its own folder which I had managed to move off the SSD before it put them there.
I then put the Elements trial software on as am thinking of using it, that then created its own folder of the Photos on the SSD drive which luckily is large enough as My Photo's which is a mixture of Raw and Jpeg comes it around 100GB.
So I now seem to have about 4 copies of my pictures and don't really want to sort them photo by photo
So is there an easier way to sort the duplicates ?

just take one of each photo that you need into a new folder then delete the rest, itl take 15 minutes or less of your time... the time you spend looking for a better solution could have been spent on sorting them out..

 

[elmo151]

try these links

http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/apps-by-apple/iphoto.html

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4101?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US