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Repairing Note Cleanup
As I had about 1300 notes with duplicated links, I did not want to edit them by hand, and looked into regular expressions, using Notepad++, to find and delete the extra links.

I have not written regular expressions before, so I used the regex tester at https://regex101.com/ to help build my search string.

There was a Stackexchange question which helped me, see notepad++ - How to find and mark all duplicate paragraphs using Notepad ++? - Super User

Regex in Notepad++

It seems to me that the following search/replace in the Notepad++ Replace dialog has deleted all the duplicate links that were created by Note Cleanup.

  • tick Wrap around
  • select Regular expression
  • tick Matches newline
  • The search for string is
    • (<style name="link".*?<\/style>)\s+\1+
  • The replace string is
    • \1

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Fixing the tree

  1. In Gramps create a backup of your tree without media

  2. In file explorer (I’m on Windows) right-click the .gramps backup file you just created and open it with 7-Zip (I have 7-Zip installed on my PC but another tool would do the same).

  3. In the 7-Zip window right-click the .gramps file and chose Open then select to open with Notepad++ - it takes a while to open as it is a big file.

  4. In Notepad++ enter the search/replace dialog as above, and click Replace All

  5. Save the fixed file – with a new name just in case.

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I have not checked everything yet, but it seems to have worked. I think it saved time, and at least by automating I did not overlook some duplicates if I stepped through it all by hand.
I have Notepad++ v7.9.5
There are some link anomalies that Note Cleanup seems to have created, that I mentioned earlier, but I will have to find them again. I guess regex could fix them too.
And thanks again SNoiraud - I had never looked into the .gramps file.

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