Linking contacts and deleting duplicates

Hey guys, my contacts list from an old phone are divided between 3 export files and many of the contacts are repeating about 4 to 5 times when i import them to this phone. I have linked the contacts for now but what i really wanna do is delete all those duplicates so that only a single contact for one person remains. I can't link some contacts which i want to link since there are a surplus amount of duplicate vthat have been linker together. Is there any solution for this problem? How can i delete duplicates? I have a z1 compact.

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I wish there was a separate Discussion for Addressbook and Apple Mail because this post is about Addressbook / Contacts and there's no where to properly post, so the best I can do is post here since the issue happened on my iPad Air's Contacts. I've sent Feedback, but in the meantime ...
I never noticed Linking contacts for some reason until today when adding a new contact using the Create New Conact feature.
After creating, I noticed I could link her to related other contacts in my Contact database and did.
I then saw that in addition the linked contact names now being listed under LINKED CONTACTS which link to their Contact page, very cool, data from these linked contacts was posted into fields of the new contact such as Phone numbers, email and Notes, basically merging a lot of data without any proper labels. Meaning, the first linked contact's phone became the mobile phone under my new contact. Her home phone was a phone from the 2nd contact I linked to her. Each added linked contact's email now showed as an email for her, the new contact. I linked 5 people ans now had 6 emails and phones all mislabeled
I didn't want a merge of data even if labeled well, all I wanted was a list of linked contacts at the bottom of this new contact's page.
So I manually deleted the phone numbers hoping the list of contacts would remain.
BEWARE when you delete a phone number from within a linked contact it deletes the number in the original record AND deletes the contact from your Contacts, although these linked Contacts still exist in iCloud, but without their phones :(
This may be a setting issue I can fix, but it was new and seemed intuitive until I deleted the phones. An alert "Are you sure...) seems like a reasonable safe guard for such dramatic result. I lost 5 phones and these were all new contacts from my new job I started this week.
Yes I'm sending this to Feedback.
(You can link contacts when in Edit mode).

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HT201210 Contact List Problem.   I have duplicates on my iPhone. I turned off my Contact and selected "Delete Contacts" Most of the contacts were deleted but about 120 were left on my phone.   I've tried selecting individual contacts and deleting them,

Contact List Problem.   I have duplicates on my iPhone. I turned off my Contact and selected "Delete Contacts" Most of the contacts were deleted but about 120 were left on my phone.   I've tried selecting individual contacts and deleting them, No Go.
Can anyone help?   How do I get rid of these contacts so I can re-synch my iPhone.

I have exactly the same problem on my ipad. It is happening on only some contacts but, as with you, when I delete one of the contacts on the ipad, the second ipad contact and the contact on the imac are also deleted. This is even the case when I have differentiated the two contacts on the ipad and can see the one I have deleted on the ipad is not the same one as is then deleted on the imac.

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Hello,
I am syncing an iPad and 2 iPhones with one user on our macbook. We have roughly 1500 contacts which constantly get edited/deleted/added. Now I was told at the apple store that when syncing the newest version of the contact will be the one that's kept. However that's not the case, in fact there is no "real pattern" on what happens when synced.
If a contact gets deleted on one of the 4 devicde (iPad, mac or 2 iPhones) it will always return when the other devices sync, if we edit a contact it will most times duplicate the contact and we now have 2 or 3 versions of it and WORST of all it will merge contacts which are not to be merged (let's say we have 2 Simons, 1 with just a number and 1 with more info like email, address and birthday) it will just add the other contacts number to the excitisting contact and delete the second.
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Hey
I'm Michael and I work for connex.io, an address book service.
To my knowledge, there is no option to do this in Outlook itself. Depending on the service you use, there might be a de-duplication feature available.
If you want, you can try connex.io. Our app can automatically de-duplicate, complete and clean your contacts for you and sync them with many devices (including Outlook). If you want to check it out: https://connex.io/tour-1-what-does-connexio-do or if you need more help you can mail me: [email protected]
Good luck!
Michael
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