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Google has very advanced and EASY duplicate elimination and merge for
contacts with same name but difference info, IE one has phone #, another has
e-mail it will merge them together - saves me hours of work.

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 22:18, Vishal Sheth <vusheth@gmail.com> wrote:

> For duplicates, go to Google and clear duplicates from there. Now sync and
> enjoy.
> Vishal Sheth
>
> Sent from my Vodafone BlackBerry®
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: twenty pearls <akaivyleaf@yahoo.com>
> Sender: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:32:29
> To: <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>
> Reply-To: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [apple-iphone] Syncing contacts in Google
>
> Let me get the particulars out of the way, I have a 3Gs, and I've had
> MobileMe
> for the past year but I let my subscription expire because the only thing I
> was
> using it for was to sync contacts. To save 99 dollars (I know I can get it
> cheaper on Amazon) I let it expire and I moved to Google.
>
> No problems syncing except out of 1300+ contacts I have a pesky 31 who
> always
> duplicate. How can I stop this duplication every time I sync? It is
> always
> the same 31 contacts, and I see nothing different with them as opposed to
> the
> masses.
>
> I've figured out that I do NOT have to have the "Sync contacts with..." box
> checked in iTunes for the sync to occur, I thought that was causing the
> duplication but its not.
>
>
> While I'm talking about contacts, on the phone itself, under groups, I
> have an
> absolute mess I would love to clean up. Under "All contacts", the total
> number
> of contacts has blossomed to 4000+ and I don't understand why it grows
> exponentially. I have slightly less, around 3600. under the "All on My
> iPhone"
> category and the true number of contacts +/- the 31 duplicates under my
> Google
> e-mail address. How do I get them all to have the correct number of
> contacts?
>
> Its not a big deal, as I leave it to my Google email address, but I'm in
> the
> cleaning/neat/tidy up mode and this is beginning to bother me.
>
>
>
>
>
> Sharon H.
>
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