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Corrupt entry in iPhone's Contacts causes duplicate contacts
Authored by: hotoru on Nov 14, '08 08:33:40AM

FIXED !
I believe I had a corrupt entry in my contacts. Contacts took at least 8 seconds after launch before usable. I have 1100 contacts. Here was my fix.

--Opened address book on mac and selected ALL contacts (cmd-A)
--Export to vCard (also repeated as archive for safety)
--Delete all contacts
--Sync with iphone / mobile me and confirm updated on iphone
--Open Address Book and import from vCard
--Sync iphone and or mobile me

Dropped my launch to usable (scrollable searchable) time from 8+ sec to 3 seconds. Finally contacts is usable.
Hope this helps others.
Hotoru



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Corrupt entry in iPhone's Contacts causes duplicate contacts
Authored by: yingweb on Dec 30, '11 10:38:20PM
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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