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Some while back I was having issues with Outlook 2010. Every time an e-mail was flagged as a follow-up task I would see two entries in the task pane, not one. I also got duplicate entries for calendar alerts. To complicate matters on the Tasks “Tab”, I saw double tasks shown under the “To-Do List” view, but single tasks under the “Tasks” view. I tried “repairing” Outlook. No good. I uninstalled it and then reinstalled it. Still no good. In the end this fixed it for me…

1. Go to Control Panel and select Mail.

2. Click on Data Files button – There were TWO data files (pst files) listed with identical file paths.

3. Highlight the data file that is not marked as the default and remove it.

Lo and behold! When I opened Outlook only single tasks and single calendar alerts were seen in all screens and views.

I have no idea how two data files appeared but removing the non-default one fixed it.