Duplicate Address Book items

Hello - I went into my address book tonight, there must have been 20 duplicate listings for each of my contacts. I painstakingly deleted all of the duplicate entries, and before my eyes I can see some of them duplicating themselves. Any ideas? Thanks.
Chris

Take a look at this thread and see if it helps. Otherwise post more details, particularly of synchronisation.
AK

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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?
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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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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.
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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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In my tests with GW 8.01, there seems to be a disconnect in some cases
between
field definitions obtained via the Object API and what the GW client is
showing.
For example, I have added a Birthday field to one entry. I see "Birthday"
as the field
definition in both the API and the client, but when I try to obtain that
property, it comes
up blank (i.e. not present at all). I am also trying to retrieve alternate
email addresses,
which I thought would show up under "E-Mail Addresses" but again, zilch.
Another oddity: trying to get the mobile phone number under "Mobile Phone"
yields nothing,
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remember all of the reasons, but that is the way that
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but it will be reported as "Mobile Phone" by the client
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There were some problems with the IDL compiler with the
field EmailAddress where the field was changed for
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>>> On Monday, February 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jeff
McKay<[email protected]>
wrote:
> In my tests with GW 8.01, there seems to be a disconnect in some cases
> between
> field definitions obtained via the Object API and what the GW client is
> showing.
> For example, I have added a Birthday field to one entry. I see "Birthday"
> as the field
> definition in both the API and the client, but when I try to obtain that
> property, it comes
> up blank (i.e. not present at all). I am also trying to retrieve
alternate
> email addresses,
> which I thought would show up under "E‑Mail Addresses" but again,
zilch.
>
> Another oddity: trying to get the mobile phone number under "Mobile
Phone"
> yields nothing,
> but going back to the pre‑8.0 definition, "Cellular Phone Number" does
in
> fact work, although
> I see that definition nowhere. Why is that? Are there other secret field
> names that I need to
> know? Is there a way to get the data via a field number or something that
> is fixed?
>
> BTW, most field definitions work fine, just a few of them are not working,
> so I believe there
> is nothing wrong with my code.

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