I think I just found a way for this kind of duplicates, e.g. all made at once do to an import. A problem with it is that it also deletes non-dupes introduced by the import.
(0) Go to the properties of the dupes and note the exact created date of the newer one. This is under Properties -> Task Statistics -> Created: (1) Go to To-Do tab -> Outline -> All tasks (2) Go to Edit > Text filter... (3) Expand "Advanced", then click the "Add advanced" checkbox (4) Click "Setup..." button (5) Click "Add rule" (6) Make a rule with "CreatedDateTime" you found in (0) (7) Run the rule, then select and delete all the results. Would still be nice to know if there is a better way. On Saturday, April 26, 2014 11:44:49 PM UTC-4, Dan J Clark wrote: > > How do I bulk remove a large number of duplicate items? > > I'd think there would be a "remove duplicates" or "remove dupes" or > "delete dupes" or "delete duplicates" or "delete duplicate tasks" or > "remove duplicate tasks" or "dedupe" or "deduplicate" menu option > somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. (Just helping out future searchers > with that long list of possibilities there. :-) > > I've used Outlook 2010 with ODIR - Outlook Duplicate Items Remover 1.4.4 - > http://www.vaita.com/odir.asp - before to do stuff like this in Outlook, > guessing that might work if set up in combination with MLO's Outlook sync, > but I don't use Outlook any more, and don't have it installed on my > computer at the moment, so that would not be my preferred solution. > > IMHO there should always be a deduplication feature if a sync or import > items into existing document feature exists in a piece of software. I > really hope there is one in MLO I'm missing, or some little tool to do it > provided by the company. > > How exactly I've ended up with 300 duplicate entries will be the topic of > my next post... > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/85c6b793-390d-4663-a331-e907feac6ce1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
