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Duplicates: Removing or Creating

Entourage Shortcuts for Duplicate can be found under Edit in the menu bar. Command-D

Note: Having a middle name in an Address Book contact will cause the contact to be duplicated when it is synced to Entourage.

Many users are experiencing duplicates after installing Office for Mac 2008. It might help to clean up your iCal duplicates before tying to sycn with Entourage. Delete iCal duplicate appointments. Be sure to get the correct AppleScript for Tiger and Leopard to remove duplicates.

Messages:

Delete Dupes Messages All Folders Author: Allen Watson

Deletes duplicate messages in ALL folders (it loops through them all). This is useful after you've had a duplicate download of a ton of messages after, for instance, a server outage when they lost track of what you'd already downloaded.

Remove Duplicate Messages in a Folder Author: Allen Watson

Eliminate duplicate messages in a folder of Microsoft Entourage. Messages must be sorted in date order, and all must be selected

Remove Duplicates Author: Barry Wainwright.

Removes duplicate email messages from a selected folder in Entourage.

Delete Imported Duplicates X Author: Paul Berkowitz

This script will quickly delete duplicate messages even from enormous folders such as the Inbox. The situation typically arises especially when importing Entourage 2001 or Outlook Express messages into Entourage X after using them both simultaneously for a while.

Remove Duplicate Messages Author: Jolly Roger

This script removes duplicate messages from the current selection in Entourage. The script determines whether a message is a duplicate of another message by examining the Subject, From, Date, and Message ID headers. The script optionally archives duplicate messages to disk before removing them in Entourage.

The neat thing about this script is that it stores archives of each message it removes from Entourage, and keeps a log of what it does. So if you run it and you find it deleted something you didn't want deleted, all you need to do is find the message file in the archive folder and drag that file back into the Entourage window.

Companion script for your duplicate messages: Nuke Messages Author: Philip Kearney, SomeDude Software

Nuke Messages will bypass sending the two steps of sending duplicates to the deleted items folder then deleting again.

This script "nukes" the message in the frontmost window or selected messages in a list. Nuking a message removes it completely from the database - it does not pass go, collect $200, or end up in the Deleted Items folder. The script comes premapped to ctrl-d. As with any strategic nuclear weapon, extreme caution should be exercised in its use. There is no confirmation dialog. Once you nuke a message, it is gone for good.

Duplicate Incoming Author: Allen Watson

This script duplicates incoming messages. What you do with them after that is up to you.

Duplicate Message Author: Allen Watson

Duplicate a message in its current folder

Delete Message Thread Author: Paul Berkowitz

Delete an email message thread by subject.

Note: In Entourage 2004, View by Groups allows you to delete a thread.

Contacts:

Categorize Duplicate Contacts Author: Allen Watson. Locates duplicate contacts in the Entourage Address Book and marks them by assigning them to a category of "Duplicate". The user can then use Address Book filtering (the box at the upper right of Address Book) to isolate all contacts in Duplicate category and process them as desired (Merge Two Contacts or Merge Contacts scripts recommended).

Categorize Duplicate Contacts Author: Allen Watson

Locate duplicate contacts in Entourage

Find Delete Old Contacts Author: Allen Watson

Locates and optionally deletes old contacts. Allows user to enter cutoff date for selection (e.g., all contacts with no activity since 1/1/2001). You can choose to retain older contacts whose records contain address and telephone information, or to include them in the list. The script creates a note within Entourage listing all the selected contacts, and offers to delete them if you wish

Companion script for your duplicate contacts: Merge Two Contacts 1.0

Calendar:

Duplicate Calendar Events Author: Paul Berkowitz

There is no way to duplicate an existing Calendar event from one day to another by dragging it to a day in the calendar, nor copying and pasting, nor from a menu. Run this script to make the duplicates, complete with title, location, description notes, categories, and links to everything the original was linked to plus all the other events with the same title. New in X: Reminders are now duplicated too, and the script is faster.

Remove Duplicate Calendar Events Author: Jolly Roger

This script removes duplicate calendar events from the calendar in the current identity. The script determines whether an event is a duplicate of another event by examining these event properties:

• Subject
• Start time
• End time
• Category (optional - see ReadMe document)

The Remove Duplicate Calendar Events script has been updated so that it now detects multiple calendars and lets the user choose from a list of calendars.

1.2 - new functionality March 5, 2008

* Script now adds an entry to the log for each event it encounters so that search status is updated more frequently in the log.
* If the pDisplayLog property is true, the script automatically opens a terminal window and displays updates to the log in real-time during processing.

Download the new version.

Delete Duplicate Calendar Events. Duplicated events do not have a category (categories don't sync through Sync-Services). If you have assigned categories to your events, then you can sort by category and delete all events that do not have a category.

Delete Old Calendar Events Manually

You have two options:

  1. Go to: General Preferences -> Calendar -> Delete non-recurring older than XXX. Specify for example, 18 months. That way you can set it once and then forget about it.
  2. See Custom Views: Delete Old Calendar Events

Delete Duplicate Calendar events for Exchange Users:

Use Duplicate Killer Merger for Microsoft® Outlook

Be sure to quit Entourage while running DK. Essentially it will clear your Entourage cache when you began syncing it with Exchange again.

Palm

Entourage 2004: Duplicates in Palm: According to a source at Palm, the reason for the duplicates may be in how the conduits are set. See the Palm Knowledge Library article "Synchronize with multiple handhelds or with multiple desktop computers" can give some insight. Check the section under the heading "One handheld device, two Macs or PCs (or a combination thereof)".