Resizing Contact Pictures in Adressbook

Hi!
Has anyone an idea, how to solve this problem in a simple way.
I have a large number of contacts in my addressbook and many of them have contact pictures.
For some reason addressbook keeps the resolution and the uncropped image stored. This means that my addressbook is now quite large (over 150 MB), because I used HirRes Jpegs for many contact pictures.
Is the a simple way to resize the contact images to a reasonable resolution? A script e.g. The resize function in the pop up menue is not working for me. Just creates a black frame, but keeps the original still stored.
Thanks,
Lukas

Welcome to the discussions, LukasP.
As far as I can tell, when you drop an image into the picture space of a contact and size it, two copies of the image are made and stored in Address Book's images folder. One is a highly compressed copy of the original (in the case I have just tried the file size was reduced to 1/4 of its size) and the other is the portion cropped or sized. The former retains the original jpeg extension, the latter gets no extension. Both have the same UID-style filename. In my test case the original file was 2.2MB, the compressed version was 660kB, and the cropped version 24kB.
The point? AB doesn't use the compressed files, so you can safely delete them. Sort the Images folder by type, all the jpegs will be together and you can select and delete them.
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