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How to delete all contacts on iPhone

I've searched, but failed to find a civilised way of deleting ALL the contacts on the iPhone without having to reorganise the whole world in the process. You know, like "Select all - delete" type of action. Like we could in the 1980's with much less technology?
Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

iMacs, Intel 20 inch 2.0 with 1.5 gig ram, Mac OS X (10.5.4), 2 InteliMacs, 15" PB, 12" PB, Loads of iPods, 2 Airport Expresses

Posted on Nov 9, 2008 7:18 AM

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User profile for user: ChrisRR
ChrisRR Author
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Nov 9, 2008 9:51 AM in response to Trinity

Right, of course. I did think of that but as I said, I was hoping that in 2008 we might not have to go through the ridiculous amount of inconvenience of deleting all the contacts in the address book on the Mac, just to satisfy the needs of one iPhone.
Unless of course it's possible to save the address book contacts somewhere, then delete, then sync, then disconnect the iPhone, then restore the addresses into the Address Book?

???
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User profile for user: Andrew T.
Andrew T.
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Nov 9, 2008 10:19 AM in response to ChrisRR

It is totally possible to backup the Mac Addressbook 😀


Posted below are instructions for Leopard



Launch Address Book - In the Addressbook Menu bar go to File - Export - Address Book Archive.


This makes a backup of your entire Address Book.


How to back up and restore your important Mac OS X 10.4 files
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2980



.Mac: Backup - Restoring Mac OS X 10.4 contacts and calendars in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1880


AddressBook 4.0 Help
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AddressBook/4.0/en/ad961.html
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