Merger
The
Merger is used to compare two
lists in files, find and report matches and differences and merge the
lists to obtain one complete list.
The
Merger is really useful if you
have a basic list of e-mail addresses which you constantly use (let’s
call it the Master file) and need to merge it with a newly received list
containing some more e-mails. At that some of the e-mail addresses in the
newly received list may be already present in your Master-list, so you
need to exclude duplicates, if any.
The
Merger will compare the two
lists and extract from the new list the e-mail addresses which already
exist in the Master file and those which are actually new (placing both
existing and new e-mails into a separate list file). Then, if necessary,
it will update the Master file with the new e-mails, optionally making a
backup of the Master.
Thus,
to solve the problem of merging two lists, do the following:
-
Open the
Merger’s tab in the List
Processing application;
-
Specify
your newly received file as the Input file;
-
Specify
your Master file;
-
Specify
the file to place there the e-mail addresses from the new file which are
not present in the Master file (new
e-mails);
-
Specify
the file to place there the e-mail addresses from the new file which are
already present in the Master file (existing
e-mails);
-
Set the
option “Update Master file with the new e-mails”, if you need the
Master file to be completed;
-
Set the
option “Backup Master file”, if you need the backup of the Master
file. The backup file will be stored in the same folder, with the same
name and the extension .bak.
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Click
the “Go” button and wait for the processing to complete;
-
Check
the log and enjoy the results.
Processing
results
After
the Merger has processed your
lists the results will be placed into the specified files in the form of
sorted lists, one item per line, no duplicates.
Indicating the output file names please
note that if there is no file with the specified name in the specified
path, it will be created. If the file with such name already exists in the
specified folder, it will be overwritten.
At that the backup copy of the file may be created according to the
application options (the same refers to any other output file).
The
original input file will remain unchanged.
Important
note
Please
make sure to run the input file through the Cleaner
before you process it with the Merger.
Otherwise you may get an error message or unwanted and useless result.
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