Glad I could help. A bit of trivia. MLO mostly calls the text that you see in the Outline and To-Do on the Main pane the Task *title*. As you found, it is called the *caption *in the Setup Advance filtering dialog. The other place I found it used is in the filtering option when you do a search.
On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 1:24:30 AM UTC-5, Eudaimon Dandaran wrote: > > Thank you Zel! That did work for me. After grouping by Creation Date and > sorting by Caption (didn't know it was called caption- oops!), I was able > to identify the date on which all the duplicates were created. Well, almost > all of them. I must have done something else that complicated things > further because there were some other duplicates on other dates, though > thankfully not very many. And just to be on the safe side, I saved one set > of tasks in a folder called "Duplicated Tasks" and hid them from the to do > list while retaining and organizing the other set. Thanks so much! > -Ed > > On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 1:45:25 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Have you tried creating a new view (sort task by name, e.g.) and then: >> >> Filter > Group & Sort > Sort tasks by > caption >> >> >> On Monday, October 15, 2018 at 5:40:52 AM UTC-5, Eudaimon Dandaran wrote: >>> >>> I have 150+ duplicated tasks in my MLO Inbox and more in the rest of my >>> outline. How this happened is not entirely clear to me and is a long >>> story, but it involves migrating to a new hard drive while retaining the >>> old one as an external drive, synchronization issues with OneDrive, and >>> exporting and importing an MLO file. Not to mention two or three months of >>> neglecting the processing and organizing phases of GTD while continuing to >>> execute the capture part of it. >>> >>> In the first place, I tried to figure out how to sort the tasks in Inbox >>> view by task name but failed. I'd be happy enough spending the five or so >>> minutes it would take to just pick through the list and delete the >>> duplicates manually if anyone knows how this can be done. >>> >>> Given that I could not figure out how to sort tasks by name, I turned to >>> my old friend, Excel. I consider myself a proficient Excel user but MLO >>> exports data in XML file format and I don't know anything about XML. That >>> said, I tried exporting the contents of my inbox to an Excel XML file and >>> then opening that file in Excel, sorting by task name and then by creation >>> date, and then using the remove duplicate function in Excel. These steps >>> leave behind the tasks with their original creation dates. When I hit >>> save, Excel warned that I would lose some formatting if I saved the file in >>> XML format and asked me to confirm this is what I wanted to do. I hit yes >>> and closed the document. When I tried importing the file in MLO, it said >>> something about an invalid file format. >>> >>> I exported the inbox anew and this time, only sorted the file and tried >>> saving it. Got the formatting warning again and saved anyway. Tried >>> importing the new file into MLO, got the same error message. Next >>> iteration: exported the inbox, removed duplicates without sorting, tried >>> saving: same results. Third iteration: tried saving as an .xlsx file but >>> couldn't import this into MLO. Fourth iteration: tried saving as an MLO >>> XML file and opening this in Excel- couldn't. >>> >>> Not sure what else to do now besides either getting up to speed on using >>> XML in Excel or removing the duplicates manually. Any suggestions, whether >>> in terms of using Excel, MLO's functions by themselves, some other option I >>> haven't heard of...? I'm a little afraid to hear that the solution is far >>> simpler than what I tried doing but would appreciate any help that can be >>> offered, humiliating or otherwise. :) >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Eudaimon >>> >> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/58c35828-6346-41b7-b6dd-f1b4c4b56adb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
