Duplicate contact groups

I have duplicate contact groups in itunes for windows. These duplicates do not exist in outlook. When syncing these duplicate groups our put on my iphone.

I had this happen.  I deleted the groups on my Mac in the CONTACTS.  That cleared it up.

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    I have hundreds of duplicate contact groups in my icloud contacts and on my macbook pro. I cannot find help with this.  I am using Mavericks.

    I found a solutiuon that worked for me from a different thread posted below.  The only thing I did differently was I moved the whole directory /AddressBook to my desktop.  When I launched Contacts after that, I saw that OS X created a new AddressBook directory.  I then went to iCloud and switched Contacts back on and boom I had all my updated contacts from iCloud WITHOUT duplicate groups!
    Back up all data.
    Quit Contacts or Address Book if it’s running. If you use iCloud, uncheck the box marked Contacts in the iCloud  preference pane.
    Triple-click the text on the line below to select it, then copy it to the Clipboard (command-C):
    ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata
    In the Finder, select
    Go ▹ Go to Folder
    from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V), and press return.
    A Finder window will open with a folder selected. Move the selected folder to the Desktop, leaving the window open for now.
    Relaunch the application and test. If there’s no improvement, quit and put back the item you moved, overwriting the newer one that may have been created in its place. Otherwise, delete the item.

  • Deleting Duplicate Contact Group

    So... I sync'd my contacts "from my mac" while I was already syncing with MobileMe, and now I have duplicates of all my contacts, and as such I would like to delete the "All from My Mac" group.
    In searching for a solution, I found various older posts all of which basically said that you cannot delete an entire contact group on an iPhone. But as the most recent post I found was 6 months old, I am wondering if anybody out there has any new insight they can provide to solve this mildly annoying situation?
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    To get rid of the duplicate contacts caused by syncing with both MobileMe and your computer:
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    2. You will be asked what you want to do with previously synced contacts - select "Delete from my iPhone".
    3. Connect your phone to iTunes, go to device page, info tab and disable sync contacts.
    4. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > MobileMe acct > Contacts > "ON"
    5. You will then get message: "There are existing contacts synced with your Mac. Would you like to merge them with your MobileMe account?" Choose "Do not merge."
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  • Deleting duplicate contact groups

    My iPhone has two contact groups of the same name. One of the duplicate group's is empty. One has appropriate contacts. My computer's address book does not have the same duplication. Yet, when I sync through iTunes the duplicate group still remains on the iPhone. How do I remove this duplication?

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  • Delete duplicate Contacts Groups

    Previously I sync'd Contacts from My Mac, but recently starting using Mobile.me on my iPhone 3GS. Now under Contacts/Groups I have the old data from My Mac syncs and the new Groups coming from Mobile.me. How can I purge the old My Mac groups off the phone without loosing other valuable stuff like Notes, etc.

    Select the  title you want to delete on your left,
    go to Edit in the Menubar
    and choose
    Delete Group
    Done !

  • 6 iCloud duplicate contacts groups

    I’ve disconnected from iCloud, it has never worked for me. Now iCloud had duplicated itself numerous times in addition to duplicating groups within each iCloud group:
    Howcan I fix this easily and remove the duplicate iCloud groups? I tried using the duplicate removal tool but only got “The operation has failed” dialog.
    I guess from now on it is iTunes syncing over USB. This started when I tried unsuccessfully to log into iClod from an external disk plugged into my Mac. It just seems like iCloud is nothing but a headache.

    In addition, I tried to move this message to a better page but all I got was this error:
    The usability of this website has really taken a dive in the last few years.

  • Erasing duplicate Contact groups

    My iPhone4 Contacts has duplicated contacts "From My Mac" and from "iCloud". This probably happened becasue I was syncing to myMac before iCloud services came on line. How can I erase all the contacts from my mac?

    I want to do the same on my iphones and on 3 other Macs.I moved to Lion and then icloud from mobileme on one of my imacs and it displays icloud contacts only which is what I want on the rest of my devices.  I have looked in all the preference panes and cannot find a way to delete or hide the 'on my mac' list.I have set i cloud as the default account on the 3 macs and still I see the "all on my mac"groups.Can anyone help ?

  • How do I remove duplicate contact groups?

    Somehow I have my email account -and- "Google", yet only one google internet account set up. Both have the same contacts, so I have two appearing for every contact in my book, which is rather annoying. I can not find a way to delete the other account at all.

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  • HT4897 Icloud email alias apparently causing duplicate notes and contact groups

    I seem to be getting duplicate notes and nearly duplicate contact groups as a result of my alias email account.  This coincided with the upgrade of my iphone, but the problem is on my iMac running Mountain Lion OS. 
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  • Deleted duplicate contacts from icloud and want to sync updated contacts to iphone and ipad?

    Can anyone help with this?
    Deleted duplicate contacts from icloud and want to sync updated contacts to iphone and ipad?  Did it on icloud cause have duplicates on ipad and iphone also

    Check icloud.com to be sure you contact list is correct there.  If it is, just go to Settings>iCloud on your device and turn Contacts to On to sync the contacts to your device.  If contacts are already set to On and you still see duplicates, you may be viewing a duplicate contact group in addition to the iCloud contacts.  Open Contacts, tap Groups, then tap any groups other than iCloud to uncheck them, then tap Done.  See if the duplicates are still there.

  • Contact groups in iSync

    Hello,
    the contact groups I see in iSync do not match with my addressbook! How can i get this information in sync?
    Thanks
    Stephan O.

    Hi Stephan.
    I found that iSync had errors when syncing that was stopping it refreshing the groups successfully.
    1. Open Applications > Utilities > Console.
    2. Open iSync and try and sync
    Look in the console log and see if it comes up with any entries with error or failure in them. In my case I had an error that a directory did not exist and this was causing iSync to lock up when it came to refreshing groups from Addressbook. My error is reproduced below.
    2006-05-30 12:19:26.124 AddressBookSync[324] SyncServices assertion failure ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:directory]) in [ISDRecordStore initWithDatabaseInDirectory:], /SourceCache/SyncServices2/SyncServices2-188/SyncServices/ISDRecordStore.m:32 directory does not exist: /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/clientdata/0063006f006d002e006100700070006c0065002e0 0410064006400720065007300730042006f006f006b
    In my case, I created the directory mentioned which stopped the error occurring. For some other reason when I sync'd next I had duplicate contact groups - but one of the duplicates was empty. I was then able to delete the duplicates in AddressBook and sync my desired group to my phone.
    If iSync works correctly, you should only receive one line in the log after syncing if there are no changes e.g.
    2006-05-30 12:38:37.709 iSync[339] we receive the end of our sync plan
    This may or may not help in your situation.
    Cheers Gav

  • N95 Contact Groups with iSync

    Hi there,
    I have done some searching around and can only find old posts on this and was wondering if this had been sorted since.
    I have a Macbook and I use contact groups in my Address Book. I would like those contact groups to be created on my n95 address book when I use iSync.
    Can this be done? Also, if it can be done with a special program please tell me as I will happily install something to get this to work.
    Thanks,
    Mike

    Hi Stephan.
    I found that iSync had errors when syncing that was stopping it refreshing the groups successfully.
    1. Open Applications > Utilities > Console.
    2. Open iSync and try and sync
    Look in the console log and see if it comes up with any entries with error or failure in them. In my case I had an error that a directory did not exist and this was causing iSync to lock up when it came to refreshing groups from Addressbook. My error is reproduced below.
    2006-05-30 12:19:26.124 AddressBookSync[324] SyncServices assertion failure ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:directory]) in [ISDRecordStore initWithDatabaseInDirectory:], /SourceCache/SyncServices2/SyncServices2-188/SyncServices/ISDRecordStore.m:32 directory does not exist: /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/clientdata/0063006f006d002e006100700070006c0065002e0 0410064006400720065007300730042006f006f006b
    In my case, I created the directory mentioned which stopped the error occurring. For some other reason when I sync'd next I had duplicate contact groups - but one of the duplicates was empty. I was then able to delete the duplicates in AddressBook and sync my desired group to my phone.
    If iSync works correctly, you should only receive one line in the log after syncing if there are no changes e.g.
    2006-05-30 12:38:37.709 iSync[339] we receive the end of our sync plan
    This may or may not help in your situation.
    Cheers Gav

  • How to delete duplicate contact entries in iCloud?

    Dear Members,
    I am searching for a way to delete multiple duplicate entries in my iCloud accound.  I have been unable to find a solution to this except to manually delete each one individually, one-at-a-time.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Also, if there happens to be of a way to delete all of my contacts and start from scratch, I would like to know a solution for this as well.
    Thank you in advance for your time.  Anyone that can point me in the right direction or provide me with a solution, I will be very grateful.
    Regards,
    fivanaj

    Thanks for the suggestion, Barney-15E. FYI I am not running both iCal and Calendar. Just Calendar. Me bad for using the old name and new name interchangeably.
    Tackling the iMac problem: In iCloud network preferences, I unchecked Safari then soon after rechecked it, and your suggestion appears to have worked: a bookmark recently added on one of the other devices appeared in the iMac Safari bookmarks. So far so good.
    Did the same thing with contacts. The iMac took a couple of hours to restore the sync setting, but it finally completed the task. The computer was laboring so I rebooted. Then I opened the contacts application and saw the spinning grey bars next to the "iCloud" heading above my list of contact groups. Some time later the spinning lines were replaced by an exclamation point. I clicked on it and got the message that the operation could not be completed because of a "CoreDAVErrorDomain error 1..". Subsequently, after much spinning of the line wheel, I have gotten either the exclamation point with the CoreDAV message or a lightning bolt icon. Whether exclamation point or lightning bolt, clicking on it provokes a long period of the spinning line wheel. And looking at some telltale contact discrepancies between the iMac and the other machines, nothing seems to have changed in terms of merging the discrepancies.
    Searching for the error message in the support community, I see this has happened to others, and they have had some success in following a list of steps starting with archiving the contacts, which I have done. Don't think I fully follow the other steps, nor am I sure they apply to my situation.

  • I just downloaded Maverick last week, and ALL of my contact groups have duplicated.  When I use one to send a group e-mail, everything is doubled in the address bar.  Any suggestions?  Very frustrating.

    I just downloaded Maverick last week, and ALL of my contact groups have duplicated.  When I use one to send a group e-mail, everything is doubled in the address bar.  Any suggestions?  Very frustrating.

    Hello Joannah,
    Thank you for details of the issue you are experiencing with duplicates in Contacts after upgrading to OS X Mavericks.  I would be frustrated by this too.
    If you have enabled iCloud Contacts, I recommend following the steps in the article below:
    iCloud: Resolving duplicate Contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4147
    If you’re not using iCloud, I recommend this article instead:
    Contacts (Mavericks): Combine duplicate contacts
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH15079
    Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
    Best,
    Sheila M.

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