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.
Thanks

I have the same issue, but about 20,000 duplicates!
good
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

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