Hey Christoph,
Fancy chatting with you here. I think I found a way to do this fairly safely, could probably need a bit of a clean up and a second set of eyes. Haven't added multi language functionality to this yet. The hexdump idea was the right direction to take but it leaves an extra leading character or two now and again,
xxd /Users/$u/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Preferences/Office 2011/Outlook Preferences | xxd -r
This works, but to be safe have gone with a double verification process where I am using the user folder with he most recently updated database inside. I've tested this through a few different ways but would love a second set of eyes and can think of an organization that could benefit from it's implementation if you agree / like the direction. Happy for you to edit / improve on the direction I've taken.
Pascal
!/bin/bash
Written by Pascal Sherman - pascal.sherman@us.redbull.com March 26th, 2016
This script is designed to delete all older Microsoft Outlook 2011 Identities.
Assumption is made that user is not storing any other data in this folder
Close Microsoft Outlook 2011 if it is running
if pgrep "Microsoft Outlook" > /dev/null
then
echo "Running"
killall "Microsoft Outlook"
fi
Build List Of User Folders
UserList="$(ls -1 /Users)"
For Each User
for u in $UserList ;
do
#If User Folder Has Outlook 2011 Identities
if [ -d /Users/$u/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/ ]; then
#Change to Identities Folder
cd /Users/$u/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/
#Save latest Identity to a variable
latestprofile=find . -type f -name "Database" -print0 | xargs -0 stat -f "%m %N" | sort -rn | head -1 | cut -f2- -d" " | sed 's/..//' | sed 's/.........$//'
echo "Profile by directory listing" $latestprofile"
#Compare latestprofiles with preferences config file for accuracy
preferences=xxd /Users/$u/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Preferences/Office 2011/Outlook Preferences | xxd -r
echo "Profile from preferences files: $preferences"
if [[ "$preferences" == "$latestprofile" ]]; then
#Move Identity to Safety
mv "/Users/$u/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/$latestprofile" ..
#Delete the remaining profiles
rm -rf *
#Move Identity Back
mv "/Users/$u/Documents/Microsoft User Data/$latestprofile" "/Users/$u/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities/"
else
echo "$latestprofiles and the identity listed in the prefrences file do not match"
fi
fi
done
