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Corrupt entry in iPhone's Contacts causes duplicate contacts
I have experienced many duplicates appearing in the contacts list when the original contact became corrupted. It seems that every time the contacts would sync, another duplicate would be created. In my case it was serveral corrupted original contacts on the corporate Exchange Server. Each had hundreds of duplicates. I remove ALL duplicates and the original, then recreated the original contact. It's been fine since.
Corrupt entry in iPhone's Contacts causes duplicate contacts
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Corrupt entry in iPhone's Contacts causes duplicate contacts
This solution almost works, just that you might loose a few fields that outlook doesn't support, like if you created your own labels for some phone numbers.
I've investigated this issue thoroughly, since my biggest problem was a contacts photos database of about 300mb, that would cause some apps to crash.
iDrive lite
Another option is the freeware "iDrive lite". Backing up and then "clean slate restore" will fix your issues.
This option still has a cavity, though. It might also loose some fields (not phone numbers, though). E.g. non standard (home/work) address fields.
My Contacts Backup Pro
I think it costs 2$.
1. You can backup your contacts to a vcf (will include all the fields, don't worry) and then send it to your self by email.
2. After doing so, an option in the program to delete all contacts will appear.
3. After deleting all the contacts, open the email on your iphone, once you click on the downloaded vcf it will allow you to add all the contacts.
This will for sure fix any broken contacts and can also compact the photos db to workable sizes (so that some apps that load all contacts will not crash on loading or take monstrous amount of memory.
Note: I've tested some other programs similar to My Contacts Backup (like ContactsTool, Air Contacts, XportContact), but some of them just crash on very big contacts photo files (I have about 900 contacts, about 300 of them with photos), and some loose some fields.
good luck !
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