Updating Contacts On iPod, Getting Rid Of Old Entries

I'm on my third iPod (stop improving them Apple!), but I'm having some trouble synchronising my contacts in Outlook with iTunes onto my iPod. Basically, I've saved all my contacts as vcards and put them onto my iPod, but all the old contact entries I put on previous iPods still appear on my new iPod so I have 2 or even 3 entries for most people, and I can't get rid of the old ones. When I go into the iPod's disk drive I can see all the new contacts, but not the old ones, but they're there when I look on my iPod!
Any suggestions on how to get rid of the old contacts?
Thanks,
Rob.

If you're manually putting the vcards on your iPod,
then iTunes is still syncing your old contacts.
Open up iTunes and go to your iPod Preferences, (In
iTunes right click on your iPod and go to
Preferences) and go to the iPod tab. Make sure that
Sync Contacts is not checked and then resync. You
might have to recopy those Vcards into your iPod.
Hope that helps,
AL
Thanks for the reply - have done what you suggested. I now have 2 copies of every contact on my iPod. I guess this is a slight improvement over before seeing as then I had different contacts having 1,2,3 or even 4 entries with new or old info in them. I'm still baffled as to why i've got two copes of each contact though - looking in the contact folder on the ipod I can only see one entry for each contact...
Any ideas?
Rob.

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I'm on my third iPod (stop improving them Apple!), but I'm having some trouble synchronising my contacts in Outlook with iTunes onto my iPod. Basically, I've saved all my contacts as vcards and put them onto my iPod, but all the old contact entries I put on previous iPods still appear on my new iPod so I have 2 or even 3 entries for most people, and I can't get rid of the old ones. When I go into the iPod's disk drive I can see all the new contacts, but not the old ones, but they're there when I look on my iPod!
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If you're manually putting the vcards on your iPod,
then iTunes is still syncing your old contacts.
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Thanks for the reply - have done what you suggested. I now have 2 copies of every contact on my iPod. I guess this is a slight improvement over before seeing as then I had different contacts having 1,2,3 or even 4 entries with new or old info in them. I'm still baffled as to why i've got two copes of each contact though - looking in the contact folder on the ipod I can only see one entry for each contact...
Any ideas?
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I'm on my third iPod (stop improving them Apple!), but I'm having some trouble synchronising my contacts in Outlook with iTunes onto my iPod. Basically, I've saved all my contacts as vcards and put them onto my iPod, but all the old contact entries I put on previous iPods still appear on my new iPod so I have 2 or even 3 entries for most people, and I can't get rid of the old ones. When I go into the iPod's disk drive I can see all the new contacts, but not the old ones, but they're there when I look on my iPod!
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Thanks,
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