Re: Problem with Address Book counting duplicates
Re: Problem with Address Book counting duplicates
- Subject: Re: Problem with Address Book counting duplicates
- From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:23:07 -0700
Thomas;
The problem seemed to go away on its own. I should have done a full restart as some piece of software, perhaps Address Book, was obviously confused.
I'm having a hard time keeping my scripts up to date with Address book and synching software. It's hard to synch properly without a unique identity on every record and it seems to me that with synching, the record id can change, hence the generation of duplicates. Look at the data, such as first+last name plus organization breaks when one of those fields changes.
But every time I post in this group I learn something (even if only that sometimes I miss the most obvious and best solution ;)
David Crowe
> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:41:07 +0100
> From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Problem with Address Book counting duplicates
> To: AS users <email@hidden>
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> David,
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> did you find a solution for this problem?
>
> When I looked at my address book, it contains several "folders" (?), among them "local" ("Lokal" in German) and "All contacts" (guessed name, "Alle Kontakte" in German), and some directories ("Verzeichnisse"), probably related to active directories and LDAP services.
>
> I realised that I had several duplicate names, but only in "All contacts", while your AppleScript will only list the names in "local", which were counted correctly, as far as I see. I tested this also with "first name" and "last name" instead of "name" to see if typos might interfere (following Ron's suggestion).
>
> I didn't find a way to list the addresses in any other folder than "local", in particular not in "All contacts".
>
> All the best
> Thomas
>
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