Beverly Howard wrote:
>> hack <<
Curious... what's the hack?
Export the data, read with perl, eliminate true dups, combine matching (name and
email or name and phone) entries with no non-matching entries, flag conflicts,
output in abook format. By combining I catch the case where a dup because
entries with a cell number or a note, custom field, etc.
>> 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.
Yes, it's a unix-like OS solution, and not intuitive.
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.
That may be the best solution for general use.
--
Bill Davidsen <david...@tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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