Re: Finding/Deleting duplicates in Entourage
Re: Finding/Deleting duplicates in Entourage
- Subject: Re: Finding/Deleting duplicates in Entourage
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:44:24 -0700
At 8:35 -0700 10/24/2002, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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On 10/24/02 4:55 AM, "webguide" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> G'day Milos
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>> By mistake I have imported messages from Entourage 2001 in Entourage X two
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>> times. The databese is HUGE and it seems to be a havy work to select and
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>> delete every second message. Is there some way find and delete exact
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>> duplicates of messages?
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> Why not just dump the entire Ent X database and import from 2001 just once?
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That's what I'd recommend. A script looking for duplicates and deleting them
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one by one will take months to finish, or will die of memory overload first.
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Just start over. If you have got some new messages you want to keep in the
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meantime, select them and drag them to your desktop (or a Finder folder),
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and drag them into your new identity after importing from E2001 again. (If
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you have so many that's not practical , move or copy them all to a new
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Entourage folder, and drag the folder to your desktop, then drag that in to
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the new identity later.)
I had a similar problem once, with the company's invoices in M.Y.O.B (many
years ago). The driver of M.Y.O.B. managed to reset the next available
invoice number back into the range of existing invoices just before running
about 800 periodic invoices.
I solved it with a Userland Frontier and Prefab Player combination, in
which the UserTalk script verified that it was looking at an invoice in the
duplicated range and used Prefab Player to renumber it into a safe range by
playing the user interface. It took several hours (on a 7300), but a lot
less time--and with fewer errors--than doing it by hand would have. I did
the first several by hand to be sure I understood what Prefab Player should
be asked to do.
We later put the receivables part of MYOB to bed still with the odd gaps in
the historic invoice number sequence. ;-)
Oops...this is the AppleScript-users list: I could have used AppleScript
in place of Frontier...there wasn't anything which would have been
impossible in AS. Whew!
If you've caught the problem early enough, I'd concur with toss it out and
start over.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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