Guest Paul (MVP) Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 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 :D Hope this is useful! Enjoy, feedback welcomed! If you use the CAB, please consider donating £1 to my 'quidapps' effort to develop cheap, useful applications and tweaks - click here to donate. Donations will be used specifically to buy development tools to enable slicker and more advanced tweaks and applications in the future while retaining a £1 price point! 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] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest REem Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 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 :D 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! A cab-file and apptodate support are cool and usefull iterations ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 From GearDiary: 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 :D 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Confucious Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ghozd Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 (edited) +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... Edited April 24, 2008 by ghozd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 Yeah, i'm definitely going to add calendar support, perhaps tasks too. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest halr9000 Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nosferatum Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 (edited) 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 :D 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 () but i dont see it Edited April 25, 2008 by nosferatum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 The CAB file is what you need to install it... http://www.apptodate.org/dupededupe.cab P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blewer Posted April 26, 2008 Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 Calander support would be great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bdumch Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZeteBoy Posted May 1, 2008 Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 This really worked well. I am impressed. It eliminated 2800 (!) duplicate contacts that I could not spend hours removing. Great work!! Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest happymanth Posted May 5, 2008 Report Share Posted May 5, 2008 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. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenh Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenh Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PPCInformer Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Paul, figured it out...new to pocket pc's. thx Great work thanks for sharing it with us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Confucious Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 I'll add Calendar support this week everyone :D P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Confucious Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Great :D syncing with different devices I often end up with duplicates in my calender, being able to automatically clean them will be fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest klhrabosky Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 I am new to pocket pcs too and sorry, but I have no idea how to add this to my smartphone. Would some one kindly be able to explain it? I have the zip files on my pc desktop, and I do know how to open the phone's hardrive. I am not able to drag the files from the winrar windonw right into the phone's HD folders. What should I do>? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsutton Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 It's only for Pocket PC, not Smartphone. (You're in the Pocket PC Software section :D ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Confucious Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 I am new to pocket pcs too and sorry, but I have no idea how to add this to my smartphone. Would some one kindly be able to explain it? I have the zip files on my pc desktop, and I do know how to open the phone's hardrive. I am not able to drag the files from the winrar windonw right into the phone's HD folders. What should I do>? Thank you! I suggest you start in the absolute beginners section where all is explained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest klhrabosky Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 It's only for Pocket PC, not Smartphone. (You're in the Pocket PC Software section :D ) "With the introduction of WM6 all mobile phone devices running Windows Mobile are now classed as Windows Mobile powered Smartphones" - according to your beginners section. This is what I have - a samsung i760 touchscreen running WM 6.1 Am I still in the wrong place? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Confucious Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 No, if it touchscreen it's what most people refer to as a PPC (despite what the beginners section says :D) Where you are going wrong is opening the cab with winrar - the cab should be copied to your device and run on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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