On Nov 3, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> AFAIK there is not simple way to automatically remove duplicates. The
> problem is that duplicate entries are not necessarily identical
> entries, so a decision has to be made as to which of the duplicates
> is retained. And an automatic system cannot make this choice (apart
> from making a random choice). So the easiest is to put the selected
> duplicates in a temporary (static) group and delete duplicates
> manually. Make sure you use Option-Delete to delete the items,
> otherwise they are merely deleted from the group. If you sort by an
> appropriate column it should not be too hard to identify the  
> duplicates.
>
> Christiaan


Hi,

just as a question/suggestion: would it not be possible to let the  
"select duplicates" command (or a new similar command) *display* all  
duplicates (like a filter) but *select* all duplicate copies except  
for one by default? Then, if the user does not care for the problem  
you mentioned, removing duplicates would amount to choosing this  
command and hitting delete.

Best regards
Holger



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