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patteo:
I use Microsoft Outlook to maintain contacts. I also use Pocket Informant on the PocketPC and synchronize on a regular basis.

Somehow, along the way, I get a bunch of duplicate contacts in Microsoft Outlook.

Short of going through a long list of contacts to delete the duplicates, I'm looking for a safe way to delete these duplicates.

Preferably, the software should be able to highlight the differences in the seemingly duplicate contacts so that where necessary, I can merge the details into one Contact and delete the superflous duplicate.

Of course it would be nice if there's a freeware version.

Carol Haynes:
Don't know the answer but I would be interested too ...

Another useful tool would be to remove duplicate copies of emails.

kimmchii:
go here: http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm

scroll down to Duplicate Checkers, the last one is free:

Removes duplicate items from Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, and mail folders. Free, written by Fr. Simon Rundell and formerly hosted at www.hlyspirit.org.uk.
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patteo:
go here: http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm

scroll down to Duplicate Checkers, the last one is free:

Removes duplicate items from Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, and mail folders. Free, written by Fr. Simon Rundell and formerly hosted at www.hlyspirit.org.uk.
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-kimmchii (September 10, 2006, 06:53 PM)
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Thanks Kiimchi

Yes, www.slipstick.com is a great resource for Outlook users.

I was aware of that one although I have not tested it. I cannot remember why except that I may have read somewhere on some forum that did not give it a positive review.

Besides www.slipstick.com 's listing, I came across another one which looks promising at
http://www.teamscope.com/otherpro/utilities.asp#scrubber

It's free for the first 1000 contacts.

There's also another site for Outlook add-ins at www.mapistore.com where I did a search

MapiStore.com | Advanced Search
"1-10, 49 total, on "duplicate contacts" (0.33 seconds)"
http://www.mapistore.com/search/index.php?site=11&refine=1&result_page=index.php&query_string=duplicate+contacts&option=start&limite=10&search=Search+...

Anyway, cleaning up duplicate contacts can be a bit challenging if the clean-up software does not work properly.

I will have to backup the file first and work through this one carefully and slowly.

Of course I would appreciate if anyone has actual experience with any of the software mentioned.

Carol Haynes:
The MAPILab one looks really good (I have now got copies of both plugins - they do one for emails and one for everything else).

They have loads of options from deleting duplicates to moving them to a folder of your choice or even just flagging the copies.

You can set the order of priority so that emails (etc) in one folder are considered more important than emails in other folders (in a list hierarchy format) so that you can scan multiple folders and have duplicates flagged in the correct folders. You can specify any number of folders to scan (from 1 to as many as you like).

Not sure but I think you can also scan multiple PST files (haven't tried it yet - but I can't see why not).

OK it isn't free but it looks robust and MAPILab produce solid software.

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