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From: Mike Rosenberg on 10 Feb 2010 14:14 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > On 2010-02-10 09:59:19 -0600, Jason Bourne said: > > > Using Mail 4.2 on SL 10.6.2. > > > > I mistakenly copied several thousand mail messages from one mailbox > > into another mailbox that already contained most of them. > > > > Short of manually deleting the dupes, is there a way to find/delete them? > > If your server is IMAP you could restore Mail from your backup and then > re-read any now unread messages from the server. If he has a Time Machine backup, he can restore from the most recent backup before the oops moment regardless of whether it's IMAP or POP. -- My latest dance performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9pudbFisE> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi>
From: Jason Bourne on 10 Feb 2010 15:59
Barry Margolin wrote: > In article <hkuocs$hi8$2(a)news.albasani.net>, Jason Bourne <jg(a)spy.net> > wrote: > >> TaliesinSoft wrote: >>> On 2010-02-10 09:59:19 -0600, Jason Bourne said: >>> >>>> Using Mail 4.2 on SL 10.6.2. >>>> >>>> I mistakenly copied several thousand mail messages from one mailbox >>>> into another mailbox that already contained most of them. >>>> >>>> Short of manually deleting the dupes, is there a way to find/delete them? >>> If your server is IMAP you could restore Mail from your backup and then >>> re-read any now unread messages from the server. >>> >> Thanks but this folder contains historical emails going back 12 years so >> most all are long gone from the server. > > Mail Scripts has a "Remove Duplicates" script. > > http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16217 > Oh yeah, that's working great. It's been cranking for several hours now, is about two-thirds of the way through the mailbox and has pulled out nearly 3 thousand emails! |