[APP] Outlook Cleaner 0.991 [2009.08.21]

[ZaijiaN]

About Outlook Cleaner

Outlook Cleaner is a program for your Windows Mobile 5.0+ phone that helps you remove duplicate and redundant contacts, appointments, and tasks.

Ever get a new phone, sync it to your Exchange account, and end up with hundreds of duplicate items?

Accidentally create a duplicate item but with different information, and then need to figure out which one to keep and which one to delete?

Then this program is for you!

Requirements
Windows Mobile 5.0+
.NET Compact Framework 2.0+

Version
0.991beta, 21 August 2009 - minor bugfixes
0.99beta, 02 July 2009 - refined Appointment/Task algorithms, merge editor
0.98beta, 25 June 2009 - added Appointment, Task cleaning
0.971, 12 June 2009 - with extra debug error messages
0.97, 12 June 2009 - extended from Contact Cleaner
0.96, 08 June 2009 - bugfix
0.95, 03 June 2009 - initial public release

0.99 Features

• Cleaning
  • Scans Contacts, Appointments, Tasks
  • Detection of exact duplicates
  • Detection of near duplicates (same identifier but different properties values)
  • Keep / Merge / Delete tool

How it works
Cleaning works like this:
1) Scan the Outlook database, looking for duplicate items.
2) Exact duplicates are deleted.
3) Near-duplicates are displayed for manual merging/removal.
4) You go through the sets of near-duplicates, where you can see all the values which are different, and choose to keep, delete, or merge items.

Contacts with the same "FileAs" property are compared against each other, except for the ItemId and Picture properties.
Appointments with the same "Subject" and similar start/end times are compared against each other.
Tasks with the same "Subject" and similar start/end dates are compared against each other.

Use at your own risk, i'm not responsible, etc. etc.

Registration
Outlook Cleaner is currently free.

More information can be found at www.philchuang.com

Upcoming Features

• Keep / Merge / Delete tool
  • Display similar properties, not just the different properties.
• Contact cleaning
  • Smarter comparison of all fields (ie "Phil" and "Philip" with the same phone number)
• Fix start menu icon

[ZaijiaN]

bump for new version and slideshow!

[elosogrande7076]

looks great.....is there anyway calendar and tasks can be added in a future version? They too get duplicated if synced with Outlook....just a suggestion.

[ZaijiaN]

Originally Posted by elosogrande7076

looks great.....is there anyway calendar and tasks can be added in a future version? They too get duplicated if synced with Outlook....just a suggestion.

Yeah, I can actually reuse most of the code, so it shouldn't be hard to do a version for calendar appointments and tasks ( or heck to put it all in the same app ).

[elosogrande7076]

Originally Posted by ZaijiaN

Yeah, I can actually reuse most of the code, so it shouldn't be hard to do a version for calendar appointments and tasks ( or heck to put it all in the same app ).

That will be great...let me know if u need someone to help test....im always flashing my rom which causes me to resync and get duplicate everyting on my home computer (since i restore using PIMbackup).....cant wait to see it!

[ZaijiaN]

Originally Posted by elosogrande7076

That will be great...let me know if u need someone to help test....im always flashing my rom which causes me to resync and get duplicate everyting on my home computer (since i restore using PIMbackup).....cant wait to see it!

Now this app will only affect your phone's outlook (and thus whatever exchange account it's synched to), and won't affect desktop outlook, unless your desktop outlook is also connected to the same exchange account.

[elosogrande7076]

Originally Posted by ZaijiaN

Now this app will only affect your phone's outlook (and thus whatever exchange account it's synched to), and won't affect desktop outlook, unless your desktop outlook is also connected to the same exchange account.

Thats cool, i have a program that gets rid of the duplicates from Outlook on my desjtop.....just couldnt find something that did it correctly for my ppc.

[RaydogPR]

It worked great for me, it found 2 duplicates in 347 contacts and deleted. Only thing I regret is not having this before, whats headaches in the past with duplicating on syncs uffff. Nice app.

[mailpravinat]

I'm not able to open the application, it throws exception.

Exception:

An Unexpected error has occurred in ContactCleaner.exe

TypeLoadException

please help me i got lot of duplicate contacts in my WM [Using O2 Atom life-WM 6.5v]

[ZaijiaN]

Originally Posted by mailpravinat

I'm not able to open the application, it throws exception.

Exception:

An Unexpected error has occurred in ContactCleaner.exe

TypeLoadException

please help me i got lot of duplicate contacts in my WM [Using O2 Atom life-WM 6.5v]

I saw this error in 0.95, and thought I fixed it in 0.96 - can you check which version you are using?

Also, what versions are your WM, .NET?