Contacts are replicating when I do a sync

Hi. Each time I sync, the contacts are doubled. I have synced 6 times, and now have 6 copies of each contact name. How do I:
(1) Remove duplicate records
(2) Stop this from happening
Thanks!

can you be a bit more specific what you are trying to sync and from where to where ?

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