duplicate photos in the gallery

i was on my pc last night and connected to my phone and was trying to delete phots on the phone thru the pc. and managed to delete all of them using ctrl a . i figured i could just put them back with google but that seemed pointless because i see them on the phone anyway and now i just put new photos on an sd card because it is way easier to get them in the proper ofer for coping to the pc.

anyway as i was doing this i saw a folder called gallery on the file explorer and when i clicked it i had tons of duplicate photos. where is that gallery folder locater so i can just delete that folder to get rid of all those dupes and just copy back the originals? i'm figuring win11 is getting them from my picture section anywaywhen i open my other pc it has photos that i have on that pc and it seems just a few are duplicated in the first few lines of photos so on that pc it should be easy enough to delete the dupes. but on this pc there are tons and tons of dupes. so i'm hoping by deleting the gallery folder and then creating it again i will only get the originals. if not then i will just format the drive and re install win10.