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!
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
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
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.