Is there an example how to remove duplicate pieces of a record in Address Book?
Is there an example how to remove duplicate pieces of a record in Address Book?
- Subject: Is there an example how to remove duplicate pieces of a record in Address Book?
- From: "David B. Gustavson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 14:10:57 -0700
I've searched the archives, but haven't found anything that seems similar...
I have a large Address Book in OS X.4.9, which has somehow through
syncing with various Palm devices etc gotten typically four copies of
each phone number and/or four copies of each mailing address (e.g.
home, work, work, work). There are so many records with this problem
that I'd like to script the cleanup, but scripting is extremely time
consuming unless one can find a similar script to start from
(AppleScript seems to me a read only language--you can easily tell
what most scripts are doing, but it's really a slow trial and error
process to find the exact sequence of words that will actually do
what you want with any particular app.)
Has anybody seen such a script? Surely I'm not the only guy who's had
this problem....
I'll need to extract, for each record, every phone number and every
address so that I can compare them to detect duplicates, and then
I'll need to delete all but one of them.
Or perhaps it would be easier if I extract the good info and create a
new record, and delete the old one entirely.
I'll be grateful for any advice people can offer...
Dave
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