AI recently organized an old email archive and discovered that it contains thousands of duplicate EML files. The duplicates seem to have accumulated over time due to multiple backups and imports from different email accounts.
The archive is now much larger than it should be, and it’s becoming difficult to manage. My main concern is removing only the duplicate emails while keeping the original messages, attachments, and folder structure intact.
Has anyone dealt with a large EML archive like this before? What’s the safest way to identify and remove duplicate emails without risking data loss?