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Humm... maybe I'm not explaining this right. Of course I've done what Google
offers me to do. I go to More options and choose find and merge and it finds
the same 31 records and merges them when I tell it to. I'm good until the next
time I plug up my phone and then the 31 records come back again and I find and
merge again.

Meanwhile the other categories grow exponentially.

So any other suggestions besides using what Google offers me? Which works...
but only temporarily. Seems like there is some setting on the phone itself
which is causing these same 31 records to duplicate time and time again.

Should I delete them permanently and re-enter them?

Is there a way to delete the other categories on my phone besides deleting every
contact singularly? 4000+ records to delete one at a time isn't pleasurable.

Sharon H.
http://akaivyleaf-musings.blogspot.com/

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From: Bill Boulware <bill.boulware@gmail.com>
To: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, September 12, 2010 7:10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [apple-iphone] Syncing contacts in Google

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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