Beverly Howard wrote:
>> hack <<
Curious... what's the hack?
>> combine two or more address books, eliminate duplicates, and note
possible conflicts? <<
I'm looking forward to seeing if there is a good mozilla solution for
this as doing what you need has never been easy.
That said, I converted my and my wife's contacts lists (each with about
1,000 entries) to google contacts since they offer free exchange sync
and, as part of the conversion I was very impressed with google contacts
duplicate entry processing.
I make that statement from the perspective of a database programmer who
worked with the frequent need to dedupe huge address lists.
If I were faced with this need today, I would export both lists to csv
format, import them into http://google.com/contacts then run the google
contacts dedupe process and export them when finished.
Sounds easy. If I didn't know about that, here's what I'd've done:
Create an Access table, specifying that the email address field must be
unique ("no duplicates"). Take and paste/append each of my lists into
that table. When it detects a dupe, Access will refuse to append a
record, and it will put the failed records in a table called "Paste
Errors" where the user can review them.
When done, export as CSV and import back into your mail program (as a
new address book for safety). When you're satisfied that all is well,
empty out the old address book and drag/drop the contents of the new one
to your personal address book.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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