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Does anyone know a way to quickly delete duplicates form icloud? All my contacts and calendar postings are duplicated

Its strange because we never even had any groups, I don't even know where "card" came from we just had all our contacts on icloud and then the day after a few card groups would apear then just multiply into hundreds. The only thing I could think of is that we were logging in to the lion server as a network user. As soon as we logged onto the macs locally and not on the server for a day it worked without any cards appearing, this might not be the problem and I only tried it for a day so I'm guessing the "card" would have appeared had we continued using local accounts.
We initially imported our contacts from a windows computer, so I thought this may be the cause but even after trying:
1. setting up a new icloud account (no luck)
2. setting up another new account and starting the contacts from scratch (still no luck)
This made me think it was something to do with one of the devices or imacs but we never figured it out.
So now we are on mountain lion server with a user setup called contacts and we all share that in our address books.
Very strange... but thanks for all the replies.
Joe

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