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Brilliant!
Authored by: bobme on Oct 29, '02 11:21:36AM

<Sorry this is added in wrong place -- I've gone blind and can't see how to add a new comment>

Anonymous, your hint is brilliant! How did you ever discover this? I have been looking for a good way to remove dupes in Mail for a long time, and I even asked some Apple developers for thoughts. Who would have thought that it was already in there, undocumented??

Here is one subtlety to be aware of: I tend to have duplicate messages where sometimes the attachment has been omitted. The selection routine you describe will ignore the existence of attachments, and so it is likely that the "good" message will be one without the attachment. My simple fix is to go back to the original folder and copy over any msgs with attachments into the new temp folder. This will result in some dupes, but I avoid losing any attachments. Anyone have a better method?

Thanks,
Bob



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