Deleted & Duplicated Contacts

Anmeldedatum: 17.11.2011 Beiträge: 10

FJ,

Thanks for your response, although it was not the one I was looking for.

I think I am going to have to go through all 2,000+ contacts and review the notes in each one to ensure that I have the most recent notes in each record.

This is going to be a long, tedious process. One that I was hoping I would not have to tackle.

Rob

Site Admin Anmeldedatum: 15.02.2006 Beiträge: 31510 Wohnort: Tirol

I knwo its really a alot of work but how should a application decide which note is the right one ?

Anmeldedatum: 17.11.2011 Beiträge: 10

I don't know the technical aspects of how that would work. All I know is that MPE was reliable for 6 months and then I woke up one morning and all my contacts on my phone were gone and when I went to sync that is when the dupes occurred and then it has been a disaster since then.

It's too bad because I really thought MPE was working out real well for me until this happened. Now I have countless hours ahead of me trying to clean this up.

Man, this sucks!

Site Admin Anmeldedatum: 15.02.2006 Beiträge: 31510 Wohnort: Tirol

I am very sorry

Anmeldedatum: 06.12.2011 Beiträge: 1

hi

Each time during synchronization, your contacts are duplicating and as you have lost notes from Outlook too, i think you can use repair Outlook software, which will not only repair corrupted Outlook but also recover the lost notes. All the contacts can also be retrieved from Outlook.

I have tried Remo Recover software when i have deleted few important notes and contacts accidentally and it worked perfectly okay. You can download the free demo version and give it a try.

Anmeldedatum: 04.12.2011 Beiträge: 6

robsmarg hat Folgendes geschrieben:

FJ,

Thanks for your response, although it was not the one I was looking for.

I think I am going to have to go through all 2,000+ contacts and review the notes in each one to ensure that I have the most recent notes in each record.

This is going to be a long, tedious process. One that I was hoping I would not have to tackle.

Rob

Rob: look for a outlook duplicate remover, slipstick.com lists some, and they are just about the most cost-effective way of doing this. Google "slipstick.com duplicate delete"

Especially if you're looking at 2000 contacts.
-e

Anmeldedatum: 04.12.2011 Beiträge: 6

Drat. Just re-sync'd with the new beta, and as of right now... it's twigging on lots of contacts ... 47 of 1130 as needing change (add/delete/modification).
Some are legit, most are not.
1. Since the entries "Add-to-Outlook" already exist in Outlook, I can only surmise that it cannot tell that they are the same (even though they were downloaded FROM outlook).
2. Entries at random are marked for deletion in phone (can't find? in outlook), even though they appear when I search for them.

Hmm...

Anmeldedatum: 17.11.2011 Beiträge: 10

After many hours of cleaning up my contacts database, resetting MPE and re-syncing from scratch it appears as if I am back on track.

Some of the additional features like the ability to send texts from my laptop and the phone keypad really prompted me to get this back on track rather than abandoning MPE and going with another solution which would not have been as feature rich.

FJ, keeping my fingers crossed that I am in the clear now and will be able to move forward with MPE.

Verfasst am: Mi Jan 11, 2012 23:11

@aedmunde: Sometimes i add new fields in the betas so its possible that the contacts are really stated as different. If you get this problem on every sync then we have to go deeper

@robsmarg: Glad to have you back - even if we had no perfect solution for your problem. For future: Please create a Backup in Outlook from time to time so you can draw back if needed

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