Re: duplicate Birthdays in iCal since using iCloud

I don't know what to do...There's no way to "uncheck" the birthdays in your iCal that are now coming from both my contacts on my Mac AND on from iCloud.

The problem seems to be due to the birthday subscription using Address Book on the Mac. If Address Book has been linked to iCloud (Contacts), then there are two copies of each contact in the Mac address book - one from iCloud and one on the Mac. So each of these two copies gets a birthday entry in iCal on the Mac (though not on the Cloud, or even on ios devices). You can verify this by looking at the Mac Address Book groups and see you have two address accounts. One way to solve this is to get rid of the iCloud address book on the Mac, but that defeats the purpose of the iCloud. If there was some way to merge the iCloud and Mac contact accounts on the Mac, the problem would go away.
So I think the route problem is in Address Book - because it's a nuisance to have duplicate names there (which problem doesn't exist on ios devices). A partial solution would be to change iCal so that the birthday function can detect duplicates and not post both.
Any actual workarounds or solutions from Apple are welcomed.
After I wrote the above I looked at the "duplicate contacts" discussion (https://discussions.apple.com/message/16422473#16422473). A couple of the responses there suggest manually deleting all the "On My Mac" addresses, leaving only the iCloud contacts.

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