Applescript to get rid of duplicates in Address Book?

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zozo
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Hiya... subject kinda says it all.



I was foolish enough to select all my entourage contacts, drag n drop them into individual VCF files, and then drop em into Address Book.



Big mistake. I thought Address Book wouldda been smart enough not to add exact duplicates. *sigh*



can anyone make or tell me how or where to create an applescript to get rid of exact duplicates? It sucks to have to go through a few thousand contacts manually.





Thanx

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    it does not suck as much as cleaning the duplicates of a 26 GB itunes music library.







    i think finding / doing a script to do it would take 20 - 50 times more time than doing it manually.



    how many duplicates you have, zo?
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  • Reply 2 of 3
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    well, at least 300 duplicates, and some even three times!



    bah...



    I hope next version of Microsoft Office will use Address Book for all its contact management rather their own stuff. Or at least make it transparent to keep the two syncronised
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  • Reply 3 of 3
    >_>>_> Posts: 336member
    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21442



    That app syncs Entourage with the Addy book. I just hope it doesn't copy all the duplicates into Entourage, rather than the other way around. =)



    Best of luck to 'ya.



    - Xidius
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