Sync between 3 machines

Hi I have an iphone, and 3 laptops: macbook pro and 2 macbooks. i want to sync seemlessly between the 3 machines and my phone but everytime i sync, i get the message asking if i want to merge records. i merge and then it creates multiple contacts in my phone and in my address book. although not mission-critical, it is a terrible inconvenience.
The iPhone (as well as the iPods) were designed to sync with exactly one machine. There is no convenient way to sync with 3 (or even 2) machines.
thoughts to try today is to create groups on each address book on each computer then sync inly to the groups but im sure this is going to cause the same issues.
Yep. Even if the groupname are identical, their internal identifier will be different from each other causing the sync software to treat them as non-identical groups.
the other question is how do i remove the duplicates in my address book without manually going through them?
Maybe there is some third party application doing such automatically (if so, I do not know this third party software). However, there is no built-in way. If you have a backup, you could restore the backup (which should not contain the duplicates).

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PeterBreis0807 wrote:
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