Snow leopard / address book

Snowleopard installation resulted in duplicte folders in address book.

Hello:
I do not understand what you mean.
Where are the "duplicate folders?"
Incidentally, I seriously doubt if installation of OS X 10.6 created your problem.
Barry

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