Re: How to delete duplicates from MAILED-folder!!

From: Henrik Roseno (hero@login.dknet.dk)
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 01:38:29 +0200

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bpaddock@csonline.net (Bob Paddock) wrote:
>>I have accumulated 385 messages in the MAILED-folder, appr. half of
>>them are duplicates
>>I know that a utility would just have to find the messages with the
>>same Date and Message-ID headers
>
>In the YarnUtility package there is a program called
>SortFold that does what you want.

I had thought about that possibility, and now that several persons
directed me to do that, I tried it on the POSTED-folder.
SortFold DID identify duplicates, but consistently TOLD ME that it
deleted the WRONG message, namely the messages that I DID send, saving
the drafts that I did NOT send!!
I tried saving the right ones and deleting the ones that SortFold TOLD
ME it had saved, I converted the two new different versions of POSTED
with EditFold, and applied two text-compare utilities. To my
astonishment, the comparison tells me that they contain the same
messages, but not in the same order.

Can anybody tell me WHY SortFold tells me that it deletes the sended
messages, but actually deletes the draft messages??

This is the command I used:
sortfold posted posted.x /G+ /L+ /T+ /X+ >output.txt

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Henrik

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