Thunderbird Extension: Duplicate Contact Manager v0.2 released

2006/09/13

I finally released version 0.2 of the Duplicate Contact Manager extension for Mozilla Thunderbird. The most important change is that it now allows you to search any of your multiple address books. Thanks to everybody who has tested and sent feedback on the initial version!

12 Comments

Luc on 2006/09/20 at 11:22h GMT:

Another item on the wish list:
(optionaly) block adding a new contact to the “Collected Addresses” if the same address is already in any of the address books.

Call that “preemptive duplicate removal …”

Thanks for the extension.

Marian Steinbach on 2006/09/20 at 13:59h GMT:

I reckon this wouldn’t only apply to the Collected Addresses but to all address books. Right?

Well, I don’t know yet how to hook into the mechanics of wherever contacts are added. So this is an ambitious one.

Thanks for your feedback!

FSocke on 2006/10/09 at 20:49h GMT:

I Have Problems with the new version.

I have an adressbook with 800 Adresses.

During the search i eliminate 4 or more duplikate adresses or manipulate some adresses, then after a few changes the programm stops itself with the comment everything is done, but there many, many duplikates left. Then i must start again and the program begins every time from the first checked adress. This takes a long time and is nerving. i don`t know, why the program stopped during duplicates finding. Please check the program, to find the reason for it. Beside thsi the program is helpful. It stability could be better!

Thanks for your extension.

Eaton on 2006/10/16 at 19:54h GMT:

Even if not perfect, this is free, and very useful! Thanks for taking the time to write it. It really helps!

Martijn Coppoolse on 2006/11/01 at 15:33h GMT:

Hi Marian,

That’s a very nice piece of work you did there!

I have two feature requests:
- Deletion of *both* addresses
- Search for duplicates *across all address books*, or even better: allow selecting the address books to search for duplicates. In the side-by-side display of dupes, it would then be nice to see what address book each entry is from.

Thanks again for making Thunderbird more useful!

Oh, and the Thunderbird icon at the start of this blog entry doesn’t show…

Al_H on 2006/12/13 at 19:44h GMT:

5/5

Hi Marian,

Superb extension.., both in features and in cosmetics… I’ve got now all my contacts finally organized.

Please do update it to TB 20 as soon as you can… I am already missing it

Al_H

Pontus Berg on 2007/01/19 at 00:49h GMT:

I do appreciate the functionality of this plug in but do have problems with it;
1) It’s VERY slow for me!
2) I get so many exceptions from it.

I do have a strange environment with mobiles, computers at home and at work, Plaxo and so on, where I cross sync between them and this can of course lead to problems, where duplication is one! Plaxo Pro does a lot of good for me here, but I would like to stop paying for this service if I can find a free duplicate killer that does the job and I hence have high hopes for this one!

“Component returned failiurecode: 0×80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)” and a bunch of more text …

Marian Steinbach on 2007/01/19 at 17:06h GMT:

Hi Pontus!

Thanks for the feedback. How many contacts do you have? It’s a known limitation that the extention cannot handle more than 1000 contacts, due to javascript recursion restriuctions in Mozilla’s javascript interpreter.

Marian