ICloud/Solution for cleaning up address book duplicates

Thanks

thanks, it works but still has dupes.

I found this article http://goo.gl/iih1c to get rid of dupes completely

errr please help!

just followed the advice above, but each time I try and import my back up back in it appears for about 2 seconds and then dissapears, so as it stands i dont have any contacts in on any devices.

any ideas???

always remember to make a full backup before doing any permanent changes

Here is an alternate way of cleaning it up:

I believe the duplicate address book accounts stems from the move from MobileMe to iCloud and both accounts still being active.

This is how I merged the two address books:

1) To make sure all the contacts are in both:

a) I selected On My Mac account - clicked on any address - Command A to select all - drag the contacts to the iCloud account - answered OK to merge and resolve duplicates.

b) same in reverse: select the iCloud account - click on an address - click Command A to select all - drag the contacts to the On My Mac account - answer OK to merge and resolve duplicates.

In system preferences I found an iCloud icon and also a MobileMe icon. I was logged in under both.

1) In the Address Book preferences I selected iCloud and unchecked Enable this account.

2) In the Address Book I selected iCloud and clicked on the minus “-” to remove that account – leaving only the local Mac address book.

3) I went into system preferences and logged out of MobileMe

4) In system preferences I opened iCloud and the “Contacts” was not selected (from above) and I selected it.

I got a dialog box asking if I wanted to merge the iCloud contact with the local contacts – clicked YES.

… spinning wheel for a minute … voila – only one address book account – iCloud with syncing to iCloud and my iPhone.

what is the desktop app?

Might be of interest too: Addressbook Tool is another solution to find and remove duplicates.

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Hi guys,

This hasn't helped with me as the MobileMe account won't allow me to disable it or even delete it from the desktop app.

Here's my issue (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3992564):

I am having real problems with Address Book after transfering from MobileMe to iCloud.

I have two accounts running at the moment:

MobileMe - xxxxxx

iCloud - xxxxx (using my Apple ID as they suggest)

This means that I have two accounts in my Address book with duplicate details.

I have turned off the MobileMe account on my iMac - and they still show in Address Book.

I have gone in to Address Book preferences and tried to disable the MobileMe Account by unchecking the 'Enable this account' button ... but it simply checks itself again. So I still have duplicates.

I have removed the MobileMe account altogether from the Address Book Accounts pane, but when I restart the app they just come back again!

I have gone on to the MobileMe Address Book online and deleted all of the contacts - but they have not been deleted off of my Address Book.

Can someone please tell me how I can remove this account from my Address Book as it's driving me mad, I dont want it anymore and it also means that I now have a duplicate Birthdays account in my iCal as well!!!

Any idea of any fixes for this?

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Thanks.

Worked perfectly, with 2,800 contacts X 2 it was hard going manually.

Oops! This posted as a reply to the wrong message, and now I cannot edit or delete. I had wanted to reply to mcpeck's excellent post.