On or near 1/25/2001 7:10 PM, Eric Hildum at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> By the way - I have some feedback for the author of the Merge Contacts
> applescript for Entourage. It works well, but I did find one small problem.
> The contacts that I wished to merge were my main identity and a near duplicate
> of it imported from my OE address book. Since the Main Identity contact was
> based only on the setup information I gave when starting Entourage, it was
> missing the additional information that I had entered into the old Outlook
> address book. Naturally, I wanted to merge this information, but the script
> always merges the second selected contact into the first, which was not what I
> wanted. Editing the script was easy, but it would be nice if the script would
> detect if one of the two contacts was the main identity, and always merge into
> it (I can't think of a situation where you would want to merge to a non main
> id and delete the main id....).
>
You make a good case for the main identity situation; I don't know offhand
how to check for main identity, but I will take a look. I think, in general,
it would be good to allow the user to pick which of the two contacts to
merge into. I ran into a number of situations where the second contact had
irreplaceable and non-copiable characteristics. Another such case is where
Entourage has been tracking history, e.g., the times you last sent to or
received from this person. When that occurred, I usually manually edited the
name of one of the contacts to reverse the sort order! Having the ability to
specify "Merge first into second" or "Merge second into first" would be good
also. I can't say as it is high on my priority list, though. The thing is,
once you've imported your contacts and removed all the duplicates by
merging, duplicates rarely occur. I have not needed the script since I
finally got it working and ran it!
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Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson
A Mac family since 1984 <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/>
Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage:
<http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/>
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