Re: Is there an example how to remove duplicate pieces of a record in Address Book?
Re: Is there an example how to remove duplicate pieces of a record in Address Book?
- Subject: Re: Is there an example how to remove duplicate pieces of a record in Address Book?
- From: Peter Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 10:40:19 +1000
Hi David,
It is very easy to call the instruction to find all duplicate
entries and merge them. Would a script doing this suit you?
On 06/05/2007, at 7:10 AM, David B. Gustavson wrote:
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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