On or near 1/5/02 10:45 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > 1. I imported from Eudora. In my contacts list, I now have two different > entries under the same name. One is John Doe who was already in Entourage > with all the data already entered. The other is John Doe with just email > address - imported from Eudora. I can do a multi-step cumbersome method to get > that email address into the original file and delete the Eudora import. > However, is there a better way? > > I think Allen wrote a script that opens all duplicate contacts so you can > decide what to do about each.
Yes, I did: "Duplicates Report," along with "Merge Contacts." The Merge script works on a pair of contacts you select, and merges all the data fields. If you look on www.applescriptcentral.com, you may see this script listed by Eric Hildum; that's because he modified it to include all the Japanese fields (still the version for everyone non-Japanese). The way things are, you must select a pair, run the script, and repeat for every pair of duplicates; the "Duplicates Report" script just goes through the field, finds all duplicate pairs and assigns a "Duplicate" category to them so you can pull them up easily in the Address Book. If you know in advance that all you want to do is to copy the E-mail address from one set of contacts to the other, and if there is a reliable way to tell which direction to copy (e.g., E-mail address exists in one but not the other), you would be better off using a custom script that just merges that field in all records and deletes the duplicate record. That is have someone (like me maybe, but it would be better if you tried it yourself because you will benefit enormously from knowing how to script) adapt the "Duplicates Report" script so that instead of just flagging the dupes, it actually does the merge of the E-mail field and deletes the less complete record. It would run for a long time, but less time than doing it manually. -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
