Hi there,
I have a MacBook Pro, an iPad and an iPhone. I sync my contacts using MobileMe.
I had a problem whereby my address book kept crashing, and ultimately couldn't open. Using google and these forums I managed to fix this by deleting my smart groups.
Somehow, in the process of all these, I ended up with huge numbers of duplicates, which kept replicating no matter how I tried to delete them, whether on the mobile me site or address book. I have now managed to sort all this out by switching off all syncing, and using a 'merge duplicates' app on the iPhone.
The only issue now is that every contact contains a lot of repeated information. For example, one contact will have 4 identical 'home' addresses, and another two identical mobile numbers. This is presumably from the above app not recognising these as identical and adding both to a merged contact. Which detail and which contacts are duplicated appears to be random.
I know about merging duplicate contacts, but is there any way or any app out there that will find duplicate data *within* contacts and merge it? I have over 2000 contacts because of my job, and it would be somewhat irritating to do it manually. You may wonder why I care if things are repeated - I can't really explain that, but I do. It's messy.
Any advice very gratefully appreciated.
Thank you.
I have a MacBook Pro, an iPad and an iPhone. I sync my contacts using MobileMe.
I had a problem whereby my address book kept crashing, and ultimately couldn't open. Using google and these forums I managed to fix this by deleting my smart groups.
Somehow, in the process of all these, I ended up with huge numbers of duplicates, which kept replicating no matter how I tried to delete them, whether on the mobile me site or address book. I have now managed to sort all this out by switching off all syncing, and using a 'merge duplicates' app on the iPhone.
The only issue now is that every contact contains a lot of repeated information. For example, one contact will have 4 identical 'home' addresses, and another two identical mobile numbers. This is presumably from the above app not recognising these as identical and adding both to a merged contact. Which detail and which contacts are duplicated appears to be random.
I know about merging duplicate contacts, but is there any way or any app out there that will find duplicate data *within* contacts and merge it? I have over 2000 contacts because of my job, and it would be somewhat irritating to do it manually. You may wonder why I care if things are repeated - I can't really explain that, but I do. It's messy.
Any advice very gratefully appreciated.
Thank you.