Within my address book contacts, phone numbers and-or addresses are duplicated at random.

I use several Macbook and Iphones but am very carefull to use only one addressbook on the macs as the source for all changes, I am using I cloud now but suddenly, totally at random, contacrs have disappeared, lost all info except the phone number, or WITHIN the contact file (the "card) the address or phonenumbers are duplicated.
I have a last copy of the most recent address book om my mac and would like to "clean -up" this mess.
Any advice?? And what is the correct procedure to sync contacts on all devices?
Marc

Funny that somebody "bumped" this because we've run into the same problem with my wife's iphone 3GS, mainly in using Bump and also Mover. I send her a contact this way from my iPhone and it arrives safe and sound. But it never gets into her contacts database. However--it does show up in Spotlight searches. This is in fact the only way to find it. Since I sent it several times it shows up several times, but only once with the Contacts icon next to it.
Anybody have any ideas? We are also using MobileMe, for whatever that is worth.

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I have the 8900 and when I try and synch I get the error "unable to read application data". Very, very annoying.
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i have read the manual. watched videos on youtube, but I can not drag and drop address book contacts into numbers or pages. I upgraded to Numbers 09. set up the fields as stipulated, but when I drag a contact to the numbers canvas it just bounces back to address book. I tried reinstalling 09 thinking it was a faulty install. no luck. Have tried dragging to balnk part of canvas, to the table, and to a table with fields, no luck.
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We feel your pain. Nothing keeps you from continuing to use version 2.3. Just carry on as though nothing ever happened. It's not as though you'll be missing much by not running the latest version.
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For the last 10 years my wife and I have shared one user account on our desktop computer, a G5 tower.
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highland_ddmac wrote:
I have the 8900 and when I try and synch I get the error "unable to read application data". Very, very annoying.
Wondering why I switched from Nokia!
Can anyone help please??
Hi and Welcome to the Forums!
A lot more detail is needed to understand your issue...for instance:
Your specific BB Model
Your specific BB OS (all 4 octets)
Your DTM version (again, 4 octets)
Your PC PIM version
Your PC OS version
Good luck and let us know!
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Within my address book contacts, phone numbers and-or addresses are duplicated at random.

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