DupeDeDupe removes duplicate Windows Mobile contacts

Filed under: Utilities, Windows Mobile, E-mail, Freeware

DupeDeDupe removes duplicate Windows Mobile contacts

by Brad Linder Apr 24th 2008

Have you ever read an article where the title pretty much tells you everything there is to know? Yeah, this article is basically one of those. DupeDeDupe is an applications for Windows Mobile devices that searches for duplicate contacts from your address book.

Paul at MoDaCo wrote the utility, and it's designed to work with AppToDate, which means you can automatically download any future updates.

DupeDeDupe compares each contact's "file as" and email fields as well as home, work, and mobile phone numbers. If all of those fields match, the application considers your contact to be a duplicate.

Overall, the tool is easy to use, fast, and best of all free. It should work on any device running Windows Mobile 5.0 or newer.

[via Jason Langridge]

Tags: apptodate, contacts, dupededupe, duplicates

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Paul said 3:33PM on 4-24-2008

I'm going to open source this and update / improve, sharing via Popfly Explorer:

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=267793&view=findpost&p=890532

:)

P

Vecgon said 8:02PM on 4-29-2008

Worked twice as well as expected - removed all 2800 of my contacts (Q9C, WinMo6), which were all duplicated from some Windows Vista Mobile Device Center synchronization error the night before.

Vecgon said 8:02PM on 4-29-2008

...but I reboot and they're back. Very odd, but thumbs up for Dupededupe.

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