De-duplicate address book

I have synced my Microsoft Outlook address book with my iphone, and all the contacts are duplicated - how can I resolve this?

I would assume that if you have mobile me or iCloud they are directly saved on either of them automatically. For this to happen , you need to turn on automatic synchronisation in system preference.
Also , if you want to avoid lost of data one day, I would suggest that you export your contacts as csv. file and email it to yourself in a folder that only you can access. Hope I have answered your question. If so, can you please 'like' the answer to gain credit/points.
Thank you and good luck

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Rich,
According to Address Book Help:
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One of those is your Applications folder, being displayed as a stack with the top item (Address Book) on top. Hover the mouse over each one to see the name. The Applications folder should be the one over near the trash can. Control-click the Applications folder and choose Folder in the Display As section of the menu that appears.

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I suggest if you have MacKeeper install, that your first move be to uninstall it.
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http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060322202753429
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Remove duplicate Address Book emails

I'm trying to write a script that walks through the currently selected Address Book entries, checks for duplicate email addresses, and removes any duplicates that it finds. Here's what I came up with:
<pre>tell application "Address Book"
set the_selection to selection
repeat with this_person in the_selection
set unique_emails to {}
set duplicate_emails to {}
repeat with this_email in every email of this_person
if the value of this_email is in unique_emails then
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<pre>Address Book got an error: NSReceiversCantHandleCommandScriptError</pre>
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Yes, that's because of the emails is reduced by one -every time- after the script encounters the second address. On the third encounter the index for this email address is 3, but the actual index of it is 2 -because the second one got deleted, is that make sense?
Yes, I'm just surprised that this is necessary. In some other programming languages (such as Java's collections API), keeping track of indices is not necessary because you can delete an element on the fly and the iterator object will adjust itself accordingly.
Anyway, even though the second repeat loop is not strictly necessary, I'd rather do that than have to deal with index-based loops. The second loop approach is easier to read and understand, I think.
I've posted the final version of the script here: http://vocaro.com/trevor/software/applescript/
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Address book duplicates, address book duplicates

My Address book is duplicating contacts. It will not search. I cannot merge duplicates as it freezes/hangs on the merging sequence. What to do? I have Mac OS X Lion Version 10.7.2 with a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5 Processor and 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, my Graphics ATI Rdeon HD 5750 1024 MB.

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For those that don't want to download any additional software and Just want to make a return label you can also duplicate your own address card within the address book application the number of times you need it in on your label sheet. Highlight them all, then print. Once you've finished you can just type in your own name in the search bar and delete everything except your original card which is obvious because that card has the shadow of a person.
The other way around this is to make a card called Return Address. and put your name and address in the address area. Duplicate the card so that you have the same about cards as labels, print and then delete when you have finished.
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Duplicate address book entries

After upgrade I have multiple address book entires for same contact (OSX 10.7.2). How do I delete duplicate entries?

One reason you may have duplicates is that you have each contact listed under your 'iCloud' account AND under your 'on my mac' account. Only contacts in the iCloud account will sync.
Click on the ribbon in the Address Book to reveal 'Users & Groups', and then by selecting each account on the left side you will see which contacts are in which account. (make sure nothing is typed in the search field)
If this is the reason you have duplicates you have two options of dealing with the situation. Either you can leave the duplicates alone and click on one account or the other before clicking on the ribbon again to limit what you see to that account when you return to the main part of your Address Book.
Or you can delete all the contacts from one account (usually the 'on my mac' account if you want to continue syncing with iCloud). Click on the account you want to delete contacts from on the left side of the Address Book and select the first contact in the list on the right, shift click the last contact to select all and delete.
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Go to users and groups and choose only your On My Mac Contacts to display.
Ensure that nothing is typed in the search field.
Click to select the first contact and shift-click the last to select them all.
Drag the list of contacts to your desktop.
Delete the contacts from Address Book (using your delete key).
Make sure your iCloud account is your default account (preferences > general).
Select All iCloud contacts from users and groups.
Drag the file you previously dragged to your desktop back onto Address Book.
You might want to back up all your contacts before you begin.
Select All contacts in users and groups
Click to select the first contact and shift-click the last to select them all.
Drag the list of contacts to your desktop.
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I posted this on the iSync and iPod forums and haven't gotten a response so I thought I'd post it here. So sorry for the extra posting but sometimes its difficult to know which fourm can be the best.
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I have a 3Gen iPod with my calander and contacts on it. The data on my iPod is the same as the data on my G4, except that the contacts on my iPod are duplicated. the data in address book is fine. There are a total of 483 cards in my address book on my G4 and 966 cards on my iPod.
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I made a copy of my address book. Does anyone know how to keep the copy from changing every time I make a change to the original address book?
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Linda in Phoenix wrote:
So, if I understand you correctly, I will make an archive of the Address Book. Days later, when I want to access it, I make an archive of the current Address Book and then open the older archive. When I am done with the older, unchanged archive, I then open the newer, more current archive. I want to password protect one unchangeable address book and leave another available for changes.
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The reason I want to use Address Book is because of synching with MobileMe.
I still don't understand. No matter, though. I also don't have MobileMe, so trying to come up with a better way wouldn't be productive, I don't think.

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I too had the same issue and this helped solve it.
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Is there some reason why, since iCloud, we have to have duplicates of every Contact in our Address Book?
Additionally, when I'm cleaning up my Address Book on my MacBook Pro (10.7.3) there's no way to tell if a contact is in "On My Mac" or "iCloud".
I have seen no clear discussion of this. If I change an entry for "John Q Smith" in my Address Book, why doesn't it "Unify" as they do on my iPhone? I end up with two different Address Book entries, one in either iCloud or "On My Mac" with the changes and another without the changes.
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I am already configured for, and using iCloud as my default account.
If I select "All Contacts", I have duplicates of every entry in my Address Book.
When I select the corresponding option on my iPhone, I get "Unified Contacts" — this is GOOD and SMART — when I change a 'Unified' contact on my iPhone, all the entries are synchronously changed. This is how Mac OS X 10.7.3's Address Book should be treating these entries. Is there not an option somewhere to activiate this same feature?
IF I REMOVE "ON MY MAC" FROM MY ADDRESS BOOK ACCOUNTS, I WILL BE UNABLE TO SYNCHORONISE MY ADDRESS BOOK WITH ANY OTHER SERVICE SUCH AS GOOGLE OR YAHOO. This is highly undesireable. As lovely and singular as is Apple and it's products, there are other services in the world with which I must coordinate and this is beyond my control.
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I believe the duplicate address books stems from the move from MobileMe to iCloud.
In system preferences I found an iCloud icon and also a MobileMe icon. I was logged in under both.
1) In the Address Book preferences I selected iCloud and unchecked Enable this account.
2) In the Address Book I selected iCloud and clicked on the minus “-” to remove that account – leaving only the local Mac address book.
3) I went into system preferences and logged out of MobileMe
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… spinning wheel for a minute … voila – only one address book account – iCloud with syncing to iCloud and my iPhone.

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