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remove duplicate entries in addressbook

Asked by Achim Z

After sychronizing my pocket pc (serveral times during debuging) I have a number of dupplicate entries in contacts. Is there an easy way for deleting duplicate entries?

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jz (jz+) said : 		#1

I'm not sure if there's any easy (recommended) automated way of doing this. Personally I would do it manually however this may not be feasible for you if you have a large number of contacts. If you're feeling adventurous there is a perl script that is supposed to do the job.

If you try this I strongly suggest you make a _BACKUP_ before you attempt to use the script.

http://www.zzamboni.org/brt/2006/07/09/eliminating-duplicate-contacts-in-evolution-howto/

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mlissner (mlissner-michaeljaylissner) said : 		#2

There is an easier way. Just drag all of your contacts into a new address book. As they are copied, duplicates will be reported. It works pretty well. Once the dups are deleted/merged copy the contacts back to the original address book.

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Arthur Lutz (arthur-lutz) said : 		#3

The technique explained mlissner works but if there a lot of duplicates it means a lot of work... Should there be a merge all button ?

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mlissner (mlissner-michaeljaylissner) said : 		#4

Yeah, it's no silver bullet.

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