What Is It?

ODIR – Outlook Duplicate Item Remover by Vaita, will search the individual folders in your MS Outlook setup and remove any duplicate items that it finds based on a simple set of rules.

Why Would You Want It?

If the Outlook email download process is interrupted part way through then it does not register that any emails have been received from the server. This can be caused by a crash in Outlook or the operating system, it can also happen due to Internet interruptions or a slow connection timing out. Other causes for duplicate items can be synchronisation with PDAs and mobile phones or the use of synchronisation software. Finding and removing these duplicates manually is a slow and painstaking process, ODIR provides a freeware method of making this much easier.

Note: For maximum safety I would advise that you backup your Outlook files before using this utility

Why Do I Use It?

I first started using ODIR 1 or 2 years ago when  I had some problems with my ISP and several timeouts when downloading emails caused a lot of duplicates to accumulate. Recently I had problems with Outlook crashing ( see Data Rescue Tip – Use MS Utilities to Repair Outlook Files ) and this weekend I had some more problems with timeouts due to my Internet connection misbehaving. This again resulted in a lot of duplicates that needed to be removed.

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

• Simply removes duplicate items in:
  Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

• Freeware

• Simple to use

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

• Only works on individual folders one at a time
• Can’t be set to just delete files*

* Files are moved to a subfolder of the folder being searched, this subfolder is named ODIR_Duplicate_Items and the items or the folder have to be deleted in the normal way

More About What it Does in Detail:

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