Free Outlook Email, Contacts and Calendar Duplicate Remover
I have been a heavy user of Outlook for quite some time but that said synchronizing pop accounts have often been disastrous and I usually mess up ending with duplicate emails and contacts in Outlook.
Quite recently when I bought a new laptop I copied over the PST files from my old laptop to the new one and setup new pop accounts and as usual it left me with a lot of duplicate emails.
In earlier days it was easy to remove duplicates manually since I did not have many emails, but now I really felt the need for a good tool to remove the duplicate emails and contacts since I had around 10000 emails archived and finding and removing emails would be a nightmare for me.
Searching for duplicate removers for Outlook did not find me any good software which were free to use, but that was only until I landed up on ODIR (Outlook Duplicate Item Remover) which allows users to remove duplicate contacts, calendar items, email, tasks and notes.
ODIR is Free, Fast and easy tool for removing duplicate items from Outlook folder.
With ODIR it’s a snap to clean your Outlook folders by removing all duplicates. ODIR removes duplicates from Contacts; Calendar; Tasks; Notes and Email folders.
I gave ODIR a spin for its worth and found it to be perform what it says. I was able to find and delete duplicate emails and contacts without having to find them manually. I must say I was thoroughly impressed with the software.
Using ODIR with Outlook
You will need to download and install ODIR before you can start using it. It is advisable to close Outlook during the installation process. Once you have installed ODIR restart Outlook and you should see a new menu item called ODIR, just select that and click on Remove Duplicates option from the menu.
Once you have done that you should see a new window pop up from where you can find and delete duplicates.
You can select any folder and click on Remove duplicate items, clicking on the button will not actually delete the items, it will just search and show you the duplicate items. You can choose and select which items you actually want to delete.
Summarizing
Looks like a great addition to my must have utilities. This software definitely helps to easily remove duplicate emails, contacts, calendar entries, task and notes from Outlook / Outlook Express.
If you have lots of duplicate emails and contacts I would definitely suggest you use the free Outlook Duplicate Item Remover.
Download: Outlook Duplicate Item Remover [ODIR]
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AbiLogic
June 4th, 2008 at 7:35 am #
Useful tool!
A few years ago I was find such tool, but not found
Downloaded ODIR to my utilities collection. Thanks!
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Nitin
November 26th, 2008 at 9:14 am #
Hi, Thanks for feedback, I have installed the software, but its hanging while executing form outlook menu bar.
Suggest me what to do? – Nitin
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IDNoble
December 14th, 2008 at 6:50 am #
Re: Outlook Duplicate Item Remover (ODIR)
The criteria for removing duplicate contacts is flawed. It is based on the following – First Name, Last Name, Company, and email. This criteria is not enough to identify an item as being duplicate. When I ran the program against my contacts in outlook, it identified several contacts as being duplicate which is incorrect because these contacts have different phone numbers. Thus care must be taking to ensure that the aforementioned criteria is sufficient to identify an item as being duplicate. This is a good concept though. The program is fast. Emails criteria should be fine since every email have a unique id. I think contacts is an easy fix.
Good job and thanks to the author. I hope I did not come across as knocking the program because I am not. I’m merely pointing out something that might have been overlooked.
Thanks
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BeeDee
February 27th, 2009 at 5:58 am #
Not free. It is limited to remove a maximum of 10 entries at a time. So if you have 5000 duplicate entries it will take you a very long time. To get the full version is maybe cheap in dollars but not so cheap for other currencies, especially seeing usage is maybe a once-off.
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Linde
July 14th, 2009 at 10:19 am #
Is this program compatible with outlook 2007. I have installed it and it doesn’t pick up my .pst or .ost file even after I have specifically created one.
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
July 14th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
@Linde I have used this with Outlook 2007 and it seemed to work fine for me
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Vinnster
July 16th, 2009 at 9:23 am #
It does not work with Outlook 2007 and Vista Enterprise. Outlook goes into Not Responding mode and hangs.
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SaltandLight52 Reply:
August 25th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
ODIR hangs for me, too. Does this mean I have to reinstall Outlook1997 to get rid of ODIR?
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SaltandLight52 Reply:
August 25th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Outlook 2007. Sorry about the typo
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Linde
July 17th, 2009 at 5:35 pm #
I have Outlook 2007 and Vista basic and am now trying it for the umpteenth time out of desperation to get rid of all the duplicate emails in outlook. I have used other duplicate mail removers’ trial versions, but still have duplicates left.
The developers of ODIR referred me to this solution. http://vaita.com/faq.asp#scanpst
Will try and see if it works.
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Fred F Reply:
September 11th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I fixed the freezing/hanging problem by closing the toolbar I had running for FranklinCovey PlanPlus. Maybe you are also having a problem with a toolbar that is running. Go to View/Toolbars and disable toolbars other than the standard Outlook ones, run ODIR, then re-enable the toolbar.
ODIR seems to have fixed my duplicate appointments except for the recurring all-day events. Maybe there’s another fix for that.
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Nitin
August 26th, 2009 at 4:26 am #
Hi,
I have just installed this software, but do not find option in outlook 2007 in any of the menu option. Can anyone help?
Nitin
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