remove duplicate contact groups

Thanks, but my experience was the same as Rrettke. All the duplicate groups returned, even after moving the entire AddressBook folder onto the desktop.

Thanks to Linc Davis for this solution. This Applescript worked for me on Yosemite connected to a cardDAV server. Don't know if it works with iCloud.

Change the repeat times to however many duplicates you have minus at least one, or just do them 25 at a time till you have fewer than 25 remaining. Change the delete group "name" to match your duplicated group. After it runs the result will be "missing value" and the, whatever repeat number you used, duplicates will be gone. Repeat for your other groups. There was mention on the other thread that Contacts needed to be closed but I ran it with Contacts open without problems. Hope this helps someone.

tell application "Contacts"

activate

repeat 25 times

deletegroup "Friends"

end repeat

save

end tell

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Hello, I am having the same issue with my Groups having been duplicated in iCloud. I will shorten a long story that still has not been resolved:

Went to Apple Store and saw a genius, who put me on the phone with iOS tech support, who bumped me up a level to the supervisor of iOS tech support, who literally told me that there was nothing that could be done. I did not accept this answer so I spoke to another genius, who emailed engineers and told me to come back, so I came back the next week and the same genius told me that they still hadn't heard back from the engineers and would follow up, and to just wait for them to call me. No one called (been two weeks now).

iOS tech support told me that they could see 16,000 duplicated groups on my account, but they are unable to delete them. There is no way, on my end, to select them all and delete them, nor is it possible (as far as I have been told) to just wipe the entire contents of my iCloud Contacts and start over (which I would be willing to do if this was an option).

So basically Apple is avoiding me and I am at a total loss. I don't want to abandon my iCloud account as it is very integrated into my workflow. But at the same time, my iPhone/iPad and various computers are bogged down by the thousands of duplicated groups. My iPhone 6s has become so slow as to be almost unusable.

That's my story. I hope no one else is suffering the same affliction, but if you are and you've found a solution please let us know.

(Oh, and also the above Applescript solution does not do anything, I just get the beachball.)

I too have this problem. For some reason, several (although not all) of my groups in Contacts have suddenly duplicated themselves dozens and dozens of times. Deleting them in Contacts takes forever.

I don't have a solution to this iCloud bug, however, I've found that it's much faster to delete duplicate groups in Contacts via the iCloud.com Contacts page, rather than trying to do so using the application on my Macbook.