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Delete Duplicates for Outlook Changelog

What's new in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 8.5

Oct 24, 2020
  • Results:
  • Originals can be expanded/collapsed now.
  • Group graphical indicator (triangle with +/- sign).
  • Single click/tap on group-icon (triangle) to expand/collapse that group.
  • Keyboard shortcuts to expand selected group: Right Arrow or Num +.
  • Keyboard shortcuts to collapse selected group: Left Arrow or Num -.
  • Expand all groups [Ctrl+Num +].
  • Collapse all groups [Ctrl+Num -].
  • Number of group members (including the original) is drawn now, in the first column, when results are grouped.
  • Groups are now sorted in the same fashion as group-members (when grouped)/individual items (when ungrouped).
  • Added confirmation (extra-warning) dialog when attempting to delete the originals, and "Disable deletion of the originals" is unchecked.
  • Added info-dialog when attempting to delete the originals, and "Disable deletion of the originals" is checked.
  • Fixed slow sorting when large number of messages is displayed.
  • Fixed slow show originals switch.
  • Auto-remove (from the list) standalone originals (after deletion of duplicates).
  • General:
  • Auto-close Profile-Selection dialog [Tweaks/Misc].
  • Fixed the issue where Outlook's main window remains visible during the scan.
  • Disqualify (do not compare) invalid messages [Tweaks/Exclude from Comparison].
  • Scanning speed increased for ~25% on average, memory footprint decreased for ~15%.
  • Hash functions SHA1 and MD5 replaced with less collision vulnerable SHA2.
  • DDO is now probing write-access privileges for configuration files/Windows Registry on start-up, and displays corresponding warnings/instructions.
  • Headers Comparison:
  • Custom headers comparison (All except these, Only these) is no longer case sensitive.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 8.4.1 (Aug 29, 2019)

  • Memory footprint decreased for additional 5%.
  • We had to slow down the scanning speed a little bit in order to reduce 'Server Busy - Retry/Switch' dialogs to a minimum.
  • DDO is now probing write-access privileges for configuration files/Windows Registry on start-up, and displays corresponding warnings/instructions

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 8.3.2 (Jul 31, 2019)

  • Scanning speed increased for ~25% on average, memory footprint decreased for ~15%.
  • Hash functions SHA1 and MD5 replaced with less collision vulnerable SHA2.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 8.1.1.1 (Mar 21, 2014)

  • Results:
  • Originals can be expanded/collapsed now.
  • Group graphical indicator (triangle with +/- sign).
  • Single click/tap on group-icon (triangle) to expand/collapse that group.
  • Keyboard shortcuts to expand selected group: Right Arrow or Num +.
  • Keyboard shortcuts to collapse selected group: Left Arrow or Num -.
  • Expand all groups [Ctrl+Num +].
  • Collapse all groups [Ctrl+Num -].
  • Number of group members (including the original) is drawn now, in the first column, when results are grouped.
  • Groups are now sorted in the same fashion as group-members (when grouped)/individual items (when ungrouped).
  • Added confirmation (extra-warning) dialog when attempting to delete the originals, and "Disable deletion of the originals" is unchecked.
  • Added info-dialog when attempting to delete the originals, and "Disable deletion of the originals" is checked.
  • Fixed slow sorting when large number of messages is displayed.
  • Fixed slow show originals switch.
  • Auto-remove (from the list) standalone originals (after deletion of duplicates).
  • General:
  • Auto-close Profile-Selection dialog [Tweaks/Misc].
  • Fixed the issue where Outlook's main window remains visible during the scan.
  • Disqualify (do not compare) invalid messages [Tweaks/Exclude from Comparison].

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 7.5.0.1 (Dec 30, 2013)

  • Scanning speed can be changed now during the scan
  • Left-click on main statusbar-pane to decrease scanning speed. Right-click to increase the speed
  • Left-click on main statusbar-pane, while scanning is off, to display full status bar message
  • Left-click on Settings Overview pane, while scanning is off, to display full (Settings Overview) content
  • Status bar scanning speed graphical indicators (flower-very slow, turtle-slow, antelope-fast, gear-very fast)
  • Exclusion-settings are displayed now at Settings Overview pane
  • Expand/Size Down Filters pane [Ctrl+F]

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 7.4.0.1 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • Filters:
  • Action on multiple filters selection is supported now (Move Up/Down and Remove).
  • Edit, Display Stats and Update apply for the first selected item.
  • Selected Filter(s) Action popup menu.
  • Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • Enter -> Edit first selected filter.
  • Shift+Enter -> Display stats for selected filter.
  • Alt+Up -> Move selected filters up the list.
  • Alt+Down -> Move selected filters down the list.
  • Delete -> Remove selected filters from the List.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 7.3.0.1 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • Graphical Interface:
  • Mailboxes Tree: Fixed "plus-sign" bug
  • Larger menus. Some menu items now contain images
  • Selected menu items high contrast on "themed" Windows
  • Different menu check-marks. Added selected-menu effect
  • Balloon messages
  • Originals Detection Rules:
  • Mailboxes/Prioritize Checked
  • Prioritized Mailboxes List: Multiple selection is supported now. List moved under Tweaks/ODR
  • Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • Ctrl+. -> Open Tweaks dialog
  • Ctrl+Shift+I -> Display Session Information
  • Ctrl+Shift+F -> Toggle Suspend Filters On/Off
  • Ctrl+Shift+Delete -> Delete Filters

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 7.2.0.1 (Mar 20, 2013)

  • Optimizations/Auto-move to the next mailbox:
  • When duplicates count, per mailbox, reaches _X_ messages
  • After 30 minutes/1 hour/6 hours of scanning
  • General:
  • Improved HTML rendering speed (Exclude from comparison/HTML Formatting)
  • Added additional images and image scaling for cases where DPI settings are above 100%

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 7.1.0.1 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • General:
  • Unicode support
  • Exclude from Comparison:
  • Exclude HTML formatting
  • Special Comparison: Alternative text part (HTML/Plain) can be excluded from comparison now

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 6.9.0.1 (Sep 13, 2012)

  • Embedded Files:
  • Embedded files comparison list.
  • Compare embedded-files by content/name/content + name.
  • Filters:
  • Increased overall filtering speed.
  • Embedded File Name [conjunction option] [text value].
  • Any Header by Title [conjunction option] [text value].
  • "Any Header" renamed to "Any Header by Content".
  • Filter Stats button/dialog box.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 6.8.0.1 (Aug 22, 2012)

  • Graphical Interface:
  • Windows display settings scaling is supported now.
  • Tons of GUI-related tweaks and improvements.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 6.5 (Apr 23, 2012)

  • Delete Duplicate Journal Entries - Additional comparison criteria:
  • Billing Information
  • Categories
  • Contacts Names
  • End Time
  • Last Modification Time
  • Mileage
  • Aging Status
  • Size
  • Type
  • Unread Status
  • Delete Duplicate Notes - Additional comparison criteria:
  • Categories
  • Creation Time
  • Last Modification Time
  • General:
  • "Simple folder-selection dialog" replaced with "advanced folder-selection dialog".
  • External applications are now launched from independent threads.
  • Hold down Shift key + Help button/menu item to open particular topic in Internet Explorer (instead of help-viewer).
  • Fixed a bug where Help would be automatically opened on program startup.
  • Various logging improvements.
  • Specify alternative web-browser as "URLHelper" value inside the "Settings" section of configuration file/registry key.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 6.4 (Feb 20, 2012)

  • Added CC and BCC columns.
  • Sorting hot-keys: Ctrl+F1 - Ctrl+F8.
  • Customizable toolbar.
  • Statusbar hints.
  • Simple auto-highlight criteria upgraded to standard filters.
  • Summary/Highlight/Set [Ctrl+H].
  • Summary/Highlight/Clear [Ctrl+Shift+H].
  • Select Duplicates/Originals only.
  • Deselect Originals/Duplicates/All Messages.
  • Invert Selection.
  • List text size can be changed now.
  • Corresponding hot-keys are: Ctrl+Num 2 (Decrease), Ctrl+Num 5 (Reset to Medium) & Ctrl + Num 8 (Increase).
  • List font can be specified now.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 6.3 (Jan 12, 2012)

  • Reset settings per category.
  • Tweaks/Reset button.
  • Results/Preview Pane.
  • Generic message-dialogs replaced with customized Info-Box.
  • Tweaks-dialog tooltips.
  • Progress-bar color now indicates current scanning speed.
  • Deep pink (very slow) -> purple (very fast).
  • Windows Restart Manager is supported now.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 6.2.0.1 (Dec 29, 2011)

  • Scanning Timeout:
  • Additional timeout intervals: 30 minutes, 1 hour.
  • Auto-stop scanning when system memory utilization exceeds: 90%-50%.
  • Resume after: 1 Minute, 10 Minutes, 30 Minutes, 1 Hour.
  • 'Timeout active' Statusbar pane.
  • Graphical Interface:
  • Toolbars can receive the focus now. Main toolbar focus hot-key: F5.
  • Toolbar buttons contain text now. Buttons scaled up to 80x80 pixels (main toolbar), 130x40 and 80x40 (results) and 100x34 and 90x34 (Compare Message Files tool).
  • Color palette expanded from 16/256 colors to 'True Color'.
  • Vista/7 visual styles are supported now.
  • Added windows small icons.
  • These icons appear on Windows Task Manager and applications such as VirtuaWin.
  • Log viewer is no longer limited to 29 248 characters.
  • Hot-keys
  • Delete Duplicate Contacts: Ctrl+O
  • Delete Duplicate Calendar Items: Ctrl+A
  • Delete Duplicate Tasks: trl+T
  • Delete Duplicate Journal Entries: Ctrl+J
  • Delete Duplicate Notes: Ctrl+N
  • Results/Copy Message Summary: Ctrl+C
  • Manually Compare Message-Files: Ctrl+M

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 6.1.0.1 (Dec 8, 2011)

  • 64-bit edition of the program

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 5.8.0.1 (Oct 25, 2010)

  • General:
  • Configuration files can be stored in users data folders now
  • "Deleted Items" are now listed on the mailboxes tree/menu
  • 'Scan on Schedule Service' program file renamed to 'ddoService'
  • Graphical Interface:
  • Resizable main window
  • Menu items Status-bar hints
  • Pop-up menus can be triggered with the "Apps" key
  • Dual monitors are supported now
  • Scanning Method description label
  • Miscellaneous tweaks and improvements

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 5.7 (Jan 23, 2010)

  • General
  • Standard/Light additional criteria can be used in conjunction with Special comparison.
  • Thread-index can be compared in conjunction with Standard and Light comparison.
  • Attachments can be compared in conjunction with Light and Special comparison.
  • Headers can be compared in conjunction with Light and Special comparison.
  • Originals Detection Rules can be used in conjunction with Special comparison.
  • Settings
  • Settings can be stored inside the Windows Registry now.
  • Configuration files can be deleted during the un-installation.
  • Program folder is deleted during the un-installation, if empty.
  • Graphical Interface
  • Action/Set Scanning Method menus.
  • Action/On Duplicates menus.
  • 'Auto-close address-book permission dialog' now works with Outlook 2007.
  • Logging
  • External log-viewer.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 5.6 (Oct 14, 2009)

  • General:
  • Sequential mailbox access.
  • Additional comparison criteria: Conversation Index, Conversation Topic.
  • Additional comparison criteria: Categories, Companies.
  • Light comparison: Compare BCC field.
  • Improved COM errors handling.
  • Results: Disable deletion of the originals.
  • Start-button becomes the Stop button during the scan. / Removed Stop-button.
  • Special Scanning Method:
  • Pseudo-duplicate can be identical to: Any part/beginning/end of the original.
  • Exclude "one-liners" (messages with one line of text).

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 5.5 (Sep 30, 2009)

  • Results:
  • Results windows are now running from separate threads.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause Results window to crash after lengthy scans.
  • Fixed a bug where action on selected messages would fail if Outlook was previously closed.
  • Fixed Display Originals on load.
  • Originals are listed in Results Report now, if Display Originals is checked.
  • Misc tweaks and improvements.
  • Compare Message Files Tool:
  • Action/Delete/File.
  • Action/Wipe/File.
  • Action/Move/File.
  • Action/Open/File.
  • Window: Maximize/Restore/Stretch/Minimize/Close menus.
  • Close window hot-key: Ctrl+W.
  • General:
  • Updated Windows common controls (to the latest version as of this release).
  • DDO now supports Windows XP/Vista themes.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause the crash on attachments comparison, where Outlook's "ole attachments" were considered as "regular" attachments.
  • Added additional menus and toolbar buttons.
  • Main toolbar now contains larger buttons.
  • Light Comparison: Now it's possible to exclude message-ids from comparison, and use additional criteria as the main comparison criteria.
  • Special Comparison: Exclude messages with no text.
  • Message items from the root folder (pst-file) are now represented with a mailbox (at the root level).
  • Fixed a bug where description labels are not updated when the settings are changed.
  • Basic session information stats are available via Session/Information menu.
  • Additional Tasks:
  • Automatically delete empty reports.
  • Automatically delete empty posts.
  • Logging:
  • Outlook COM errors are now logged on per mailbox basis.
  • Extended logging on all levels.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 5.4 (May 13, 2009)

  • Maintenance release.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 5.3.0.1 (Dec 13, 2008)

  • Text conjunction options: is/is not/starts with/ends with.
  • Fixed a bug where Ignore Case switch is ignored for RegExp matches.
  • Fixed a bug where day is not considered for scanning schedules.
  • Custom check/clear mailboxes conjunction options: starts with/
  • ends with/matches RegExp.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 5.2.0.2 (Oct 9, 2008)

  • New Tools: Manually Compare Message-Files.
  • Scan on Schedule:
  • Scanning method (Standard/Light/Special/Active).
  • Action on duplicates (Delete/Wipe/Active).
  • Originals Detection Rules:
  • Importance is/is not Higher/Lower.
  • Date is/is not Older/Newer.
  • Filters:
  • Custom default folder for Filters Set files.
  • List right-click pop-up menu.
  • Filters Set dialog.
  • Append Filters Set.
  • Graphical Interface:
  • Toolbar icons are now 24x24 pixels.
  • Filters are now grayed if inactive.
  • Splash Screen.
  • Registration Information dialog.
  • About box updated.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 5.1.0.8 (Oct 7, 2008)

  • Special Scanning Method. (See Help-file for details.)
  • Tool: Delete Duplicate Contacts.
  • Tool: Delete Duplicate Calendar Items (Appointments).
  • Tool: Delete Duplicate Tasks.
  • Tool: Delete Duplicate Journal Entries.
  • Tool: Delete Duplicate Notes.
  • Scanning Method description label.
  • Scanning Timeout.
  • Group Items by Originals.
  • Maximize Results-window.
  • Tools-bar.
  • User Manual.
  • Extended logging for all types of COM errors.
  • Misc logging tweaks and improvements.
  • Installer updated.
  • Windows tool-tips.
  • Main program icon.
  • Special COM error handling for attachment extraction.
  • All files are now temporarily stored in current system "TEMP" folder,
  • instead of the main program folder.
  • No unfolded attachments are left behind in case Outlook raises exception (caused by invalid/damaged attachments).
  • Overall scan will be continued if invalid attachments are detected.
  • Invalid attachments info is logged, if "Log COM Errors" is checked(Tweaks/Logging).

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 4.9.1.1 (Jul 31, 2008)

  • Maintenance release

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 4.9 (Jul 14, 2008)

  • Results/Highlight applies for: Originals/Duplicates/All items.
  • Session/End.
  • View/Expand [/Size Down] Log Pane.
  • View/Set Focus on Pane/Mailboxes [F2].
  • View/Set Focus on Pane/Filters [F3].
  • View/Set Focus on Pane/Log [F4].
  • Help/Related Programs.
  • Help/Send Feedback.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 4.8 (Jul 2, 2008)

  • Standard Combined Comparison: Raw/Hash.
  • Exclude from comparison options: Importance/Status/Read Status.
  • Scanning speeds: Very Slow/Turbo.
  • Tip of the Day.
  • Fixed couple of compatibility issues

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 4.7 (Jun 27, 2008)

  • Action: Move duplicates to custom mailbox.
  • Misc Tweaks: Resynchronize mailboxes-tree dynamically.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause slow program loading.
  • Scan on Schedule
  • Scan in the background.
  • When the scan is over: Exit/Log off/Turn off Windows.
  • Highlight items.
  • Results: Move selected items to custom mailbox.
  • Toolbar buttons: Set Importance/Flag.
  • Different text color for originals.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 4.6 (Jun 7, 2008)

  • Maintenance release.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 4.3 (Apr 26, 2008)

  • Actions
  • Display Results / Manual Action.
  • Demo-Mode now defaults to Display Results.
  • General
  • Additional Light criteria: Compare Date-Sent.
  • Fixed a bug where Drafts would be excluded from comparison.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 4.2 (Apr 4, 2008)

  • [Standard] Now it's possible to compare messages by the raw content.
  • [Light] Alternative comparison criteria.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 3.7 (Jan 18, 2008)

  • Maintenance release.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 2.8 (Feb 15, 2007)

  • Mailboxes pop-up menu.
  • Right-click on the tree, or press Shift F10, to open this menu.
  • Check all mailboxes. (Hot-key: Ctrl ' ')
  • Clear all check-marks. (Hot-key: Ctrl '-')
  • Preserve checked (toggle: on/off)
  • Keep checked mailboxes for the next session.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 2.4 (Nov 26, 2006)

  • Added support for Outlook 2003
  • CDO is no longer used.

New in Delete Duplicates for Outlook 2.3 (Oct 22, 2006)

  • Increased scanning spead, and lowered memory consumption, for the following cases: (a) Light method (b) Classic and Hash when Compare Headers checked.
  • (c) Filters, when Match Any Header/Anywhere specified.
  • Updated casting for Outlook's COM interface.