Is there an easy way to remove duplicate emails from a folder

[Guest]

I recently had a crash and when I revamped everything, I went to the back up
file and brought the personal folders over to the computer. Problem is,
every email that was there came in twice in the folder, and I am looking for
a short method of eliminating the duplicates without having to address each
one separately.

 

[DL]

If you still have the backup, and it was a simple copy, open the 'backup'
pst in OL. Delete the origonal pst's

 

[Guest]

I appreciate the information, however I do not appear to be able to open the
backup without bringing it over, and unfortunately that just creates more
duplicates, so now I have 4 copies of each email.

 

[Guest]

What do you mean by "bringing it over"? That sounds like it's something you
shouldn't be doing in the first place...might be why you're getting
duplicates, as you suspect.

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[Brian Tillman]

I appreciate the information, however I do not appear to be able to
open the backup without bringing it over,

"Bringing it over"? What do you mean by that? You open a PST with
File>pen>Outlook Data File. It certainly can't interfere with your main PST
that way.