I just started the process of migrating our workgroup vault to PDM Standard. Everything seems to be going well except deleting duplicates is very time consuming. We have many assembly's that share parts. Vault is set to not allow duplicates. When pasting the files into its folder it will generate a list of duplicates. I then export to a spreadsheet and manually delete the duplicates before check in. The last assembly moved had 500+ duplicates that needed to be found and deleted before check in. Is there a way to automate this or a better method?
Use the Update References tool. See this post:
checking assembly files into vault with existing parts already in the vualt
You would put your assembly into the vault, and then search the vault for all existing parts and finally bring in all the parts that weren't found.