I noticed the same thing: after iCloud my contacts were all duplicated but Address book listed two distinct sets:. On the Mac. On iCloud After taking a backup of the entire address book I just deleted the entire set that were on the mac and the iCloud ones are now working fine. I'm still not sure what to do with Spanning Sync which I've turned off for now. That was keeping my contacts on google synced but I'm not sure whether that is looking at the contacts that were only in the Address book and not at the iCloud ones. Found this Go to System Pref on your Mac Click iCloud Untick Address Book, selected Delete from Mac Then tick Address Book again, then select Merge Duplicates will be removed and if you are using Birthdays in your Calendar, you'll notice that the Birthday events are back to single entries as well. Another solution I figured out: go in Addressbook to Edit: Distribution List, and unchecked iCloud.
That made it for me, but will iCloud actualize? Also deactivating accounts in preferences both of addressbook and iCal, but the mess in iCal is that I now have a lot of 'Birthdays' without name (as many as people WITH name have that day.) s.t, buggy stuff. The duplicate contacts issue was being caused by Outlook and Sync Services. It seems Outlook has no way of seeing the iCloud content so it basically creates the 'on my Mac' version of the contacts thereby creating a complete set of duplicates. As usual Microsoft has no solution for this so I've decided to migrate over to Mail. Contact sync was the last useful feature Outlook could provide.
I had abandoned its calendar function when the new Mobile Me came out. I like the integrated functions of Outlook (mail, calendar, and addresses) and Entourage before that but there are too many issues now to make it a useful app.
To transfer Entourage profiles to Outlook for Mac 2016, import profiles data into Outlook 2011 first, and then import Outlook 2011 profile data to Outlook for Mac 2016. See these articles for more information: Import information into Outlook for Mac 2011 and Import email messages, contacts, and other items into Outlook 2016 for Mac.
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Hi All, I am having a challenge with one of our end users that I was hoping to hear some of your thoughts on it, and get it resolved. Here is the setting: In an Exchange environment, an end user using Outlook 2016 for Mac to manage and tag his contacts (Along with Emailing lol). The exchange account also syncs with Contacts app on his MacBook and iPhone. Online Outlook Portal shows a total of about 5400 contacts (with just a few duplicates). In Outlook, it's about 7400; Mostly triplicate for last names starting with J through M. Same goes with Contacts app and iPhone contacts. Goel: is to merge all duplicates and have a clean record of all contacts WITHOUT losing any tags in Outlook Contacts.
Tried merging some of the contacts using Contacts app as a test, but in most cases, on Outlook it only merges 2 of them and leaves 2 records behind. We tried clearing Outlook's contact cache and re loading contacts, both while Contacts app was syncing and not. No resolution. Any input is greatly appreciated.
Thank you all. Hi Teles, To work around this issue in Microsoft Outlook 2016, follow these steps: 1. Disable synchronization for the Contacts folder. To To do this, follow the steps. Export the contents of the Outlook Contacts folder to a comma separated values (CSV) file.
To do this, follow these steps: a. Start Outlook 2010. Click File, click Open, and then click Import. In the Import and Export window, click Export to a file. In the Export to a file window, click Comma Separated Values (DOS) or Comma Separated Values (Windows), and then click Next.
Click the folder that contains your contacts, and then click Next. For example, click Contacts. Click Browse. Select a file system location where the CSV file will be stored, type a name for the file in the File name box, and then click OK. For example, click Desktop, type Contacts in the File name box, and then click OK. Click Next, and then click Finish.
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Note We recommend that you verify the contents of the CSV file before you go to the next step. We also recommend that you back up the Outlook Contacts folder or back up the CSV file that you created in step 2G before you go to the next step. Delete the contents of the Contact folder in Outlook. Import the contents of the CSV file into Outlook. To do this, follow these steps: a. Start Outlook 2016. Click File, click Open, and then click Import.
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Click Import from another program or file, and then click Next. In the Import a file window, click Comma Separated Values (DOS) or Comma Separated Values (Windows), and then click Next. Click Browse, locate and then click the CSV file that you created in step 2, and then click OK.
Click Do not import duplicate items, and then click Next. Under Select destination folder, click Contacts, click Next, and then click Finish.
Note These steps may not remove all the duplicate contacts. You may have to open the CSV file in Microsoft Excel, manually remove the duplicate contacts, and then import the file into Outlook.