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 DupeDeDupe - remove duplicate contacts
Paul (MVP)
post Apr 23 2008, 14:15
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This is a very very very simple application for WM5+ PPC / SP (CF2.0) I rustled up in response to a need to remove duplicate contacts on a device.

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 smile.gif

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]


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post Apr 23 2008, 14:34
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QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Apr 23 2008, 16:15) *
This is a very very very simple application for WM5+ PPC / SP (CF2.0) I rustled up in response to a need to remove duplicate contacts on a device.

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 smile.gif

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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post Apr 23 2008, 19:25
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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 tongue.gif

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 sad.gif

Oops biggrin.gif

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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!


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+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...


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post Apr 24 2008, 13:43
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Yeah, i'm definitely going to add calendar support, perhaps tasks too.

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post Apr 24 2008, 19:23
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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?

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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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QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Apr 23 2008, 09:15) *
This is a very very very simple application for WM5+ PPC / SP (CF2.0) I rustled up in response to a need to remove duplicate contacts on a device.

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 smile.gif

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


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The CAB file is what you need to install it...

http://www.apptodate.org/dupededupe.cab

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Calander support would be great


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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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This really worked well. I am impressed. It eliminated 2800 (!) duplicate contacts that I could not spend hours removing.

Great work!!

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post May 5 2008, 14:58
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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. biggrin.gif
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