The Contacts app on my Mac somehow duplicates every entry.

The Contacts App on my Mac somehow duplicates every entry. Running Card/FindDuplicates produces a report that there are no duplicates. How do I erase the duplicates and stop their reappearance?

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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
For this step, the title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the name of the crashed application or process. For example, if iTunes crashed, you would enter "iTunes" (without the quotes.)
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, select
DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ User Diagnostic Reports
(not Diagnostic and Usage Messages) from the log list on the left. There is a disclosure triangle to the left of the list item. If the triangle is pointing to the right, click it so that it points down. You'll see a list of crash reports. The name of each report starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report related to the process in question. The contents of the report will appear on the right. Use copy and paste to post the entire contents—the text, not a screenshot.
I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.
☞ If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a crash, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.)
☞ Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report—they're very long and rarely helpful.

The Contacts app continually adds last names that I edit out. this happens across MacBook, iPhone, and iCloud. I have even fully deleted the contact and reentered. I am about to move to Android !! From posts it looks like this is a common problem.

The Contacts app continually adds last names that I edit out. this happens across MacBook, iPhone, and iCloud. I have even fully deleted the contact and reentered. I am about to move to Android !! From posts it looks like this is a common problem, but I've never seen an explanation or fix from Apple. Does anyone know how to correct this?

It is asking if you want to delete all the iCloud contacts off your Mac (not in iCloud).
Delete them. If you keep them you will have duplicates when you turn it back on. You will have the copy you kept and another copy when they resync with iCloud

My Contacts app has 100's of duplicate groups, is it possible to mass delete?

My Contacts app has 100's of duplicate groups, is it possible to mass delete?
These groups are a legacy of over a decade of mis-syncs (starting with Palm's crappy software, and then multiple simultaneous iTunes syncs). The app is so slow it's useless, and the database problem causes issues with my iOS devices too (a contact can take a over minute to save after editing).
I can delete the groups, but it takes about two minutes each (multiply that by hundreds )
I've found several "contacts cleaners" apps, but none remove duplicate groups.
I'm thinking that I might be able to export the entire database and edit it manually, but I don't know what steps to take.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Chas

Hey Linc,
Just in case anybody has searched this thread for a similar problem: taking all contacts out of the Contacts app doesn't erase groups: all my thousands of erronous groups remain (and still take up to a minute to delete each one, grrr).
I've gone into the XML files that make up the contacts database and I painstakingly deleted every file that was one of the offending groups. I thought that that should have solved my problem but, when I replaced all the files in the relevant place in the System, all those thousands of groups were still there in the Contacts app. I'm stumped :-( It could be that the database was repopulated by what was up on iCloud, but in that case I'm not sure how to consolodate everything so that one source propagates to the others (it's all complicated by the fact that my phone hasn't been sharing contacts that were created on it with iCloud, so I can't just erase it). Ahh, gotta love multi-variate problems!
Thanks again for the help, I do appreciate it.
Chas

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