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From: Jason Bourne on 10 Feb 2010 10:59 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?
From: TaliesinSoft on 10 Feb 2010 11:08 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. -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com
From: Jason Bourne on 10 Feb 2010 11:54 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.
From: Barry Margolin on 10 Feb 2010 12:00 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 -- Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
From: TaliesinSoft on 10 Feb 2010 12:28
On 2010-02-10 10:54:52 -0600, Jason Bourne said: > 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. Methinks you missed part of what I stated, and that is that first you restore from a recent backup and then you can read what was not on the backup from the server. -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com |