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PROBLEM WITH DUPLICATES.

My laptop Contacts have hundreds of duplicates. When I go to Card/Look for Duplicates it says No Duplicates Found. I can link them one at a time but each one takes 30 seconds or so, so it's impractical. Any ideas?


BTW, I swear it used to say "merge selected cards" and now there is no option for that, only "link selected cards". Could that be related?

MacBook Air 13″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Sep 15, 2023 11:14 AM

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Posted on Sep 15, 2023 2:21 PM

quantumw wrote:

My laptop Contacts have hundreds of duplicates. When I go to Card/Look for Duplicates it says No Duplicates Found. I can link them one at a time but each one takes 30 seconds or so, so it's impractical. Any ideas?

BTW, I swear it used to say "merge selected cards" and now there is no option for that, only "link selected cards". Could that be related?


Are you seeing the lists options on the left?


Can you select a list where the duplicates are not present...




ref:

If you see duplicate contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts


Contacts User Guide for Mac


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Sep 15, 2023 2:21 PM in response to quantumw

quantumw wrote:

My laptop Contacts have hundreds of duplicates. When I go to Card/Look for Duplicates it says No Duplicates Found. I can link them one at a time but each one takes 30 seconds or so, so it's impractical. Any ideas?

BTW, I swear it used to say "merge selected cards" and now there is no option for that, only "link selected cards". Could that be related?


Are you seeing the lists options on the left?


Can you select a list where the duplicates are not present...




ref:

If you see duplicate contacts after setting up iCloud Contacts


Contacts User Guide for Mac


PROBLEM WITH DUPLICATES.

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