DupeDeDupe - remove duplicate contacts |
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 Apr 23 2008, 14:15
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 The Main Man  Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,496 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage  |
 It is an EXE only (copy to your device and run), which has a basic GUI which allows you to scan for duplicates, and then choose (after being told your duplicate count) whether to remove them. Contacts are compared based on 'File As', field, 'Email' field and 'Home / Work / Mobile' phone fields. If all those fields match, it's deemed a duplicate. The application scans my ~200 contacts in under 2 seconds  Hope this is useful to someone! P PS If you think it's worthy of me cabbing up, or extending to Calendar support etc., let me know! [Edit: Now available by request in CAB form with AppToDate support without registration required for download: http://www.apptodate.org/dupededupe.cab] -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Apr 23 2008, 14:34
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Newbie  Group: Posters Posts: 35 Joined: 27th March 2006 Member No.: 180,111 |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Apr 23 2008, 16:15)  It is an EXE only (copy to your device and run), which has a basic GUI which allows you to scan for duplicates, and then choose (after being told your duplicate count) whether to remove them. Contacts are compared based on 'File As', field, 'Email' field and 'Home / Work / Mobile' phone fields. If all those fields match, it's deemed a duplicate. The application scans my ~200 contacts in under 2 seconds Hope this is useful to someone! P PS If you think it's worthy of me cabbing up, or extending to Calendar support etc., let me know! [attachment=24346:DupeDeDupe.zip] A cab-file and apptodate support are cool and usefull iterations ! |
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Apr 23 2008, 19:25
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,496 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
From GearDiary:
QUOTE Rita El Khoury Says: Is it just me or will french speaking users of this application have a nice laugh over it’s name?! Hm  Judie Lipsett Says: Rita, I don’t speak French, can you share the joke? :-) Rita El Khoury Says: Well “dupe” in french translates into dupe or sucker in english, but is mostly used for someone who has just been fooled/screwed. And french tend (the last time I checked) to use an “x de x” or “x de chez x” pattern to emphasize, like “idiot de chez idiot” means he’s the biggest idiot EVER. That means that the name of the application will translate to the biggest sucker ever. Ok it’s not funny anymore  Oops  P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Apr 23 2008, 19:42
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 Peanut Brain Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 6,266 Joined: 10th September 2004 From: Surrey, England Member No.: 56,072 Device(s): Athena, Qtek 8500 |
Just run this and it scanned my 600+ contacts very quickly and found 3 duplicates. I deleted them but would have preferred to have them listed so I could double check them before deleting. But still a very useful app!
-------------------- He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
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Apr 24 2008, 13:40
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 42 Joined: 19th May 2003 Member No.: 6,428 |
+1
A list of duplicate contacts before deleting them would be VERY good. It removed 3 contacts and i do not know which one..... And extending to calendar is also a very wanted feature... This post has been edited by ghozd: Apr 24 2008, 13:41 |
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Apr 24 2008, 13:43
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,496 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
Yeah, i'm definitely going to add calendar support, perhaps tasks too.
P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Apr 24 2008, 19:23
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,496 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
Hello everyone who's dropping in from links on the various sites! I never thought a util I hacked up for the Mobius group would have so much interest :S
I have a new idea, I am going to make the source code available for everyone on Popfly Explorer but still continue to update it as a 'community project'. Thoughts? P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Apr 25 2008, 12:37
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 2 Joined: 26th March 2006 Member No.: 179,508 Device(s): Sprint PPC-6700 |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Apr 23 2008, 10:15) Hope this is useful to someone! Very cool. What would make it more useful to me, if you have the time, is to make the fields it checks for configurable. For example a name only check or name + email would let me fix the incredibly annoying issue when you run Live Messenger and it creates dupes of all your MSN contacts. |
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Apr 25 2008, 13:24
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 1 Joined: 12th January 2008 Member No.: 343,820 Device(s): tmobile dash |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Apr 23 2008, 09:15) It is an EXE only (copy to your device and run), which has a basic GUI which allows you to scan for duplicates, and then choose (after being told your duplicate count) whether to remove them. Contacts are compared based on 'File As', field, 'Email' field and 'Home / Work / Mobile' phone fields. If all those fields match, it's deemed a duplicate. The application scans my ~200 contacts in under 2 seconds Hope this is useful to someone! P PS If you think it's worthy of me cabbing up, or extending to Calendar support etc., let me know! [Edit: Now available by request in CAB form with AppToDate support without registration required for download: http://www.apptodate.org/dupededupe.cab] paul, i been trying to download the file but i cant find the link, i just see the link to the *.cab file, can you help?? i see that there is an attachment ([attachment=24346:DupeDeDupe.zip]) but i dont see it This post has been edited by nosferatum: Apr 25 2008, 13:30 |
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Apr 25 2008, 13:37
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,496 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
The CAB file is what you need to install it...
http://www.apptodate.org/dupededupe.cab P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Apr 26 2008, 07:59
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 MoDaCo Plus Member  Group: Posters Posts: 970 Joined: 16th June 2003 From: Surrey, England Member No.: 8,211 Device(s): SPV-SPVE200-SPVM600-SPVM700 |
Calander support would be great
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Apr 28 2008, 23:43
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 1 Joined: 15th December 2007 Member No.: 333,403 Device(s): xv6800 |
QUOTE(blewer @ Apr 26 2008, 00:59) Calander support would be great Agreed! My Google/Outlook Sync nearly erased my whole calendar. When I went to resync after a one way sync from Google to Outlook, I got duplicates for ALL my dates instead. Kinda frustrated at the moment. |
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May 1 2008, 23:18
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 1 Joined: 1st May 2008 Member No.: 384,528 Device(s): HTC88, mac mini |
This really worked well. I am impressed. It eliminated 2800 (!) duplicate contacts that I could not spend hours removing.
Great work!! Colin |
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May 5 2008, 14:58
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 1 Joined: 5th April 2006 Member No.: 182,826 |
Thanks for this program.It's help me for delete duplicate, I try and remove over 500 contacts in 1 min. So happy.Wish you try to develope to duplicate calendar remover.I waiting.
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Jun 4 2008, 23:04
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 2 Joined: 4th June 2008 Member No.: 395,381 Device(s): xv6900 |
Paul,
excuse my ignorance, but what do i do with the cab file to get dedupe loaded onto my pocket pc? I have downloaded it and extracted all to a file on the computer. I xferred all to my pocket pc and double clicked setup, but it just opened a copy of the code in an explorer window. how can i get it installed? thanks ken |
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Jun 4 2008, 23:54
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 2 Joined: 4th June 2008 Member No.: 395,381 Device(s): xv6900 |
QUOTE(kenh @ Jun 4 2008, 16:04) Paul, excuse my ignorance, but what do i do with the cab file to get dedupe loaded onto my pocket pc? I have downloaded it and extracted all to a file on the computer. I xferred all to my pocket pc and double clicked setup, but it just opened a copy of the code in an explorer window. how can i get it installed? thanks ken Paul, figured it out...new to pocket pc's. thx |
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Jun 5 2008, 13:50
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 Regular  Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 93 Joined: 28th May 2008 From: Melbourne Member No.: 392,773 Device(s): HTC TyTN |
QUOTE(kenh @ Jun 5 2008, 09:54) Paul, figured it out...new to pocket pc's. thx Great work thanks for sharing it with us --------------------  ||  |
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Jun 5 2008, 13:53
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Peanut Brain Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 6,266 Joined: 10th September 2004 From: Surrey, England Member No.: 56,072 Device(s): Athena, Qtek 8500 |
He probably thought that only he, as a total newbie, would not know that you have to copy the cab to your phone and run it there and not extract it on your PC....
-------------------- He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
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Jun 18 2008, 11:12
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 20,496 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
I'll add Calendar support this week everyone
P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Jun 18 2008, 11:23
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Peanut Brain Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 6,266 Joined: 10th September 2004 From: Surrey, England Member No.: 56,072 Device(s): Athena, Qtek 8500 |
Great
syncing with different devices I often end up with duplicates in my calender, being able to automatically clean them will be fantastic!
-------------------- He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
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