I am trying to help someone out. He has a Palm Pilot and just got a Sony CLIE. Somehow he synched up the CLIE with the desktop or with the Palm Pilot and got duplicate entries in his address book.

I told him one way to do it is to delete the dupe entries on the desktop, do a hard reset and resynch the CLIE with the desktop. He claims there is an option to delete all contacts from a date range. He says he does not want to lose any data and that there might be data on the CLIE not on the Desktop.

I contacted Sony, who gave me the same answer I gave him. I asked for another way and they could not give me one.

Is there another way to do a massive selected deletion of duplicate records from a certain date? If not, I see the possibility of developing a new address book app that can store a created date and modified date to delete duplicate records from, and store them in a trashcan so if deletion was accidental they can be recovered.

if only I can convince him to use Linux instead of Windows. :)=

[link|http://www.palmpower.com/issuesprint/issue199908/linux.html|http://www.palmpower...199908/linux.html]

I did a lot of research and searching since I last posted and found this:
[link|http://www.stevenscreek.com/palm/undupe.shtml|http://www.stevenscr...palm/undupe.shtml]

Costs $8USD to register online, $3USD extra to do it offline. Many sites had reviews on it that said it was the best dupe manager for PalmOS. I hope it helps other PalmOS users who read this message and suffer from dupes.