Monday, February 11, 2002
Outlook Duplicate Remover
Posted by marlof in "SOFTWARE" @ 02:49 AM
http://www.hlyspirit.org.uk/outlook.php
Do you know what I dislike most about a hard reset on the Pocket PC? Getting my PIM information synchronized with two desktops again. Merging the information gives me more duplicates than I care for, so I try to avoid that as much as possible. The first desktop goes ok, as I choose to replace the information on the Pocket PC with information from the desktop.
But on the second desktop I want the information on the Pocket PC (freshly synchronized with the first computer) to replace the information on the desktop. Otherwise the next time you sync with the first machine again Activesync will find the new info on the Pocket PC and will merge with the desktop info. My solution: delete all PIM information in Outlook on the second desktop. If you change the view to a view by category, you can select all items in a very convenient way. After all is gone, you can choose 'merge' on the second desktop. The desktop Outlook does not contain items, so should not create duplicates in your Pocket PC.
If you do get duplicates along the way, there are different tools to help you out. Dale Coffing posted on this on Passion, and I answered with some of the things I learned along the way from Slipstick, one of the best Outlook resources out there. Then another user, Robclif4d, pointed Dale to a program that I didn't recall, Outlook Duplicate Remover. It is a program developed by Fr. Simon Rundell from the Parish of the Holy Spirit in Southsea. He calls the program 'prayerware': Free to download, use and distribute, as long as you pray for the developer, his ordination to the sacred priesthood at Petertide 2002 and his ministry at the Holy Spirit, Southsea.
Other than the things I found earlier on Slipstick, this one has the ability to remove duplicates in all Calendar, Tasks, Contacts and Notes. I have not tried it yet, but the featureset looks that good, that I wanted to share this with you.
Do you know what I dislike most about a hard reset on the Pocket PC? Getting my PIM information synchronized with two desktops again. Merging the information gives me more duplicates than I care for, so I try to avoid that as much as possible. The first desktop goes ok, as I choose to replace the information on the Pocket PC with information from the desktop.
But on the second desktop I want the information on the Pocket PC (freshly synchronized with the first computer) to replace the information on the desktop. Otherwise the next time you sync with the first machine again Activesync will find the new info on the Pocket PC and will merge with the desktop info. My solution: delete all PIM information in Outlook on the second desktop. If you change the view to a view by category, you can select all items in a very convenient way. After all is gone, you can choose 'merge' on the second desktop. The desktop Outlook does not contain items, so should not create duplicates in your Pocket PC.
If you do get duplicates along the way, there are different tools to help you out. Dale Coffing posted on this on Passion, and I answered with some of the things I learned along the way from Slipstick, one of the best Outlook resources out there. Then another user, Robclif4d, pointed Dale to a program that I didn't recall, Outlook Duplicate Remover. It is a program developed by Fr. Simon Rundell from the Parish of the Holy Spirit in Southsea. He calls the program 'prayerware': Free to download, use and distribute, as long as you pray for the developer, his ordination to the sacred priesthood at Petertide 2002 and his ministry at the Holy Spirit, Southsea.
Other than the things I found earlier on Slipstick, this one has the ability to remove duplicates in all Calendar, Tasks, Contacts and Notes. I have not tried it yet, but the featureset looks that good, that I wanted to share this with you.
