Removing Duplicate Messages Script
Lynn Quinlan
I had a very useful script which I have now located and downloaded from the
Entourage MVPs web page which allows me to remove duplicate messages in
Entourage. Very handy. Anyway, I've downloaded it, but how to get it into
Entourage 2008. I don't remember how to do this, so help much appreciated.
Thank You!
Jolly Roger
Lynn Quinlan <manx...@mac.com> wrote:
I am the author of "Remove Duplicate Messages" Author: Jolly Roger on
this page:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/duplicates.html>
If you download my script, unzip it on your desktop, and open it in
Script Editor, if you click the "Description" button at the bottom of
the script window, you will see installation instructions.
I'll post the description here for you:
Remove Duplicate Messages
by JollyRoger
This script removes duplicate messages from the current selection in
Entourage. The script determines whether a message is a duplicate of
another message by examining these message headers:
• Subject
• From
• Date
• MessageID
If these message headers match, the script flags the message as a
duplicate and removes it from Entourage.
To install the script, simply place the script in the Microsoft Script
Menu items folder (usually located at /Users/you/Documents/Microsoft
User Data/Entourage Script Menu items).
To use the script:
1. In Entourage, select (highlight) any number of messages in the
message list of any folder.
2. From the Entourage menu bar, choose "Remove Duplicate Messages" from
the script menu.
Archives
If the pArchiveDuplicates property is set to true, the script saves
copies duplicate messages to disk before removing them in Entourage. The
script saves archives in a folder named "Removed Duplicate Messages" in
the Entourage Script Menu Items folder. You can change the name of this
folder by editing the value of the pArchiveFoldername property.
Log
If the pLogging property is true, the script records all operations and
errors to a log file named "Remove Duplicate Messages.log" in the
Entourage Script Menu Items folder. To change the name of this log file,
edit the value of the pLogFileName property. The log file is created
with Unix line endings. To change the line ending character the script
uses, change the pLinefeed property accordingly.
Download Location
You can download this script from this location on the internet:
<http://jollyroger.kicks-ass.org/jollyroger/RemoveDuplicateMessages.zip>
Disclaimer
This software is offered with no guarantee of support whatsoever (unless
freely and unexpectedly given, purely out of the grace and excellent
basic goodness-of-heart of said author, who makes absolutely no claims
whatsoever to promise same). Nevertheless, and with all serious
intentions of being a "fine person of some reasonable degree of
earnestness, kind-hearted interest, human understanding and worthwhile
character," said author would like to hear from you concerning your
excellent or other adventures (or misadventures) with this software.
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JR
Adam Bailey
In your Documents folder is Microsoft User Data > Entourage Script Menu
Items. Valid AppleScripts placed in this folder will appear in the
AppleScript menu inside Entourage.
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Lynn Quinlan
On 06/02/08 12:55 PM, in article
slrnfqjt52...@peregrinus.akb.lull.org, "Adam Bailey" <ad...@lull.org>
wrote:
