Multiple copies in contacts

Whenever I sync my iPhone to my iMac and it syncs contacts, I find that after syncing I have one additional copy of each contact after each sync. I have synced at least 10 times, and have as many copies on my iPhone.

I'm sure I do. But how do I check if I do or don't? And how do I delete the extra copies in my contacts?

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I have been noticing that my iPhone has multiple copies of several (not all) of my contacts. It has added about 150 duplicates overall. It pushes multiple copies onto my gmail account. I can reasonably delete them from my g-mail account via my computer, but the next time I sync they are back.
Is there anyway I can force the phone to accept the cleaned up g-mail list and avoid this duplication in the future?

Sorry I don't have an answer, but in the interest of "misery loves company", I have the same problem. What is strange is that they are not all duplicated - only certain ones. I've looked to see what the ones that are duplicated (and in some cases triplicated)have in common, but I haven't found a common thread.

Multiple Copies of Contacts after Importing to Mac

I have been challenged with contacts since I changed from PC to Mac and then added iCloud. At this poing I have managed to lose all of the contacts on my iphone, ipad and icloud as well as all the groups I set up and have 33,000 contacts in my address book and I should only have about 1200. It doesn't really matter at this point what i have done...but i need to know how to get from where I am to having only the actual contacts (1200) on all my devices. I certainly cannot spend the days it would take to delete each individual contact that is replciated.
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I have the same issue, but about 20,000 duplicates!
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b lord,
James.
perhaps you need some utility like the one mentioned in the following thread. (haven't used it myself, so can't vouch for it beyond that i know that it exists.)
Rob Oppen, "Perfect iTunes add-on" #3, 09:29am Oct 29, 2005 CDT
love, b

How can I delete multiple copies (600 ) of the same contact that ended up on my iPhone after backing it up on iTunes?

In syncing my iPhone 3GS on iTunes, I now have many copies of the same contact -over 1,000 in one case-on my iPhone. How can I delete these multiple copies without doing it one by one on my iPhone and how can I prevent it from happening again? I have Outlook Contacts and MSN contacts -- iTunes is supposed to be syncing to my Outlook contacts, but I don't have multiple copies of any of my contacts there. HELP! Thanks!

The cause was probably a USB glitch during a sync or when copying. The music resides on the phone in separate files. A master file contains a database with an index to the music, an entry for each track and a "pointer" to the file containing the track. Somehow the index got corrupted with duplicate entries. It's likely that the music itself wasn't duplicated, but some tracks had more than one entry in the database. I've seen this happen when syncing (rather than manually managing) also. In my case deleting the track from the Music tab in iTunes, syncing, then adding it back fixed it.
A related problem I've seen is an album may be split, with some tracks in each of 2 or more album entries in the listing. Fixed the same way.

Multiple copies of email accounts, contacts and notes after syc.

Can anyone suggest why after a routine sync between iTunes on my PC and my iPhone I now have multiple copies of my email accounts showing in iTunes and multiple copies of my contacts and notes on my phone?
I have no iCloud account. I do not use iCloud. I have not changed any settings for the sync, which has been fine up until now.
What I am left with is four copies of each email account on my iTunes and my iPhone, which I cannot seem to change. Outlook has only one copy of each email account. Outlook also only has one copy of each contact and one of each note but my iPhone now has four copies of each contact and four of each note.
Any ideas what is going on and how I get back to normal please! Thanks.

Tried deleting the orange account and adding it back in, no difference unfortunately.

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Hi Eric Johnson15,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you've set iCloud to sync your contacts, this article may be useful:
Symptoms
After setting up iCloud Contacts, you may see an issue where individual Contacts appear to be duplicated. If you think you have this issue, visit iCloud Contacts at icloud.com/contacts to confirm if your contacts are duplicated.
If your contacts are not duplicated on the iCloud website (but are in Contacts, Address Book, Microsoft Outlook, or on your iOS device), continue following the rest of this article.
If your contacts are duplicated on iCloud.com, contact iCloud Support.
iCloud: Resolving duplicate Contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4147
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Multiple duplicates of contacts on multiple devices

I have an iPhone, iPad, an iMac and a Mac Mini. I am using the latest versions of Mountain Lion and IOS. I have multiple copies of the same individual contacts everywhere. For example, for one catering company I have:
- three identical contacts in my contact app on my Mac
- the same three identical contacts in my contact app on my iPad
- five contacts on my iPhone, 4 are identical to themselves and those on my pad and Mac, but the 5th has two "linked contacts" that point to the other individual contacts for this catering company
- three identical contacts in my contacts in iCloud
So my question is, basically, how to I clean all of this up? If I sit at my Mac, can I delete contacts in the Cloud and have these lead to being deleted on my other devices?
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C7280 prints multiple copies of any print request

I have a Photosmart C7280. It is connected wirelessly to three computers at home. One is running Win7 (Home Premium), one is running Vista (Home Premium, SP1), and one is running XP (Home, SP3). It works perfectly with the XP machine.
However, when printing any document (simplex or duplex, single page or many pages) from the Win7 or Vista computers, it is printed on this printer multiple times. It has nothing to do with the number of copies requested. I have reinstalled the printer software several times and it has made no difference. One time I reinstalled it I requested the test page to be printed, and I watched as it printed copy after copy of this single page sent from the installation package . I left it just to see how many it would produce. After about 25 I opened the printer activity window on the PC and saw that the status was 'Printing' as you would expect. However, as each page was produced, the status changed to 'Printing - Restarting', and another copy came out. I suspect this would go on forever. Both parts of the Pages entry (x/y) seemed to change, with numbers I couldn't understand. Hitting Cancel on the printer just cancels that particular copy and another just comes along. The only way to stop it is to cancel the print from the PC. This is a bit tedious to say the least.
It will print an unknown number of copies of any document sent to it from Word or Excel. Printing from Adobe Acrobat sometimes does it right, and sometimes produces multiple copies. Switching it off and on has no effect as it just resumes from where it left off.
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This hasn't been a huge issue for us as most of the printing on this machine has been done from the XP machine, but that's about to get replaced and any new one will come with Win7, no doubt. I'd like to get this resolved before that happens.

Thanks for your reply... searching on Google one can see that's an issue that plagues HP printers and not only under Windows. It must be an issue with the printer or its driver because it happens also under several versions of Mac OS X. Good luck to you I hope by now you solved the issue on your own. The support by HP is abysmal! My client's OfficeJet 4500 series has the same issues under OS X still unresolved.
My current solution (may not work for you): sell the HP printer and buy a different one. I've been burnt by Epson many times so that's no option either, but for SOHO uses, I found Brother Inkjets (like the MFP-J835DW I just took a chance on) to work fairly well across Macs and PCs. Works great for me so I recommend to all my SOHO clients. No more ink and paper gets wasted, but most importantly no more time wasted in frustrations caused by sub-par printers with sub-par drivers and non-existing support... unless coming across to helping a client who made the mistake to buy an HP.
I'm set, no more HP (or Epson) for me so that's what I'd suggest, save money and time and get as far away as possible from HP they've shown they are not worthy of your business by leaving you stranded and shunning customers so why even consider investing your hard earned money in their products? Bring your business elsewhere.

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