Double Contacts Problem

[Cheekz185]

OK well I am using PocketCM as my contact manager. I have to entries for EACH one of my contacts, and NO one of them is not the SIM card contac, i have sim card contacts disabled. In MS Outlook i HAD to of each contact, so i deleted all of the duplicates and synced. I still have duplicate contacts. So i deleted pim.vol and resynced and it gave me 4 of each contact!!! I didnt understand. SO i put back the original pim.vol and I am stumped because I still have duplicate contacts. Is there any way to fix this?

[aameerp]

the contacts on your phone and outlook were probably not exactly identical

this is quite long-winded but is simple and should work:
-Used NS contacts to backup all your contacts on your pocket pc
-Backup your outlook user folder/s
-delete all your contacts, on outlook and pocket pc
-check the ns contacts backup file on pc (you'll have to install the NS Contacts (different to NS contacts Backup-the pocket PC program) program on PC)
-After checking for and deleting duplicates, save the backup file
-Use this file to restore your contacts on pocket pc, once your satisfied, sync with oulook and you'll have the contacts on outlook also

remember to check which of the duplicate contacts you delete, some may have missing details etc.

NS Contacts Backup (Pocket PC) and NS Contacts voth available from:
http://www.nyxbull.net/

[atdavie]

Bugger that for a lark !

Guess this is a strong reason for not using it. Anything that messes with synchronisation is to be well avoided.

I actually synced a clean phone (ie just burned new rom) with my Outlook contacts and hit this problem.

[atdavie]

After a stopping and starting the prog my double contacts disapeared, and I have since had a look at it and I must say I quite like it !

[Pontoon]

-delete all your contacts, on outlook and pocket pc


Just wondering how you do this on your pocket pc, without having to delete each one by hand.
I've just sorted my contacts list on the pc and don't want to have to do it again so don't want to sync the phone with the pc till after I've deleted the triplicate entries... deleting each one by hand is kinda tedious seeing as my 100+ phone numbers have been duplicated twice.

[zammykoo]

there's a way to sync the phone contacts with outlook, if you have doubles most likely you can simply highlight all the duplicates at once and hit delete. this method you'll have to sort by modify date on outlook, cause your old contacts will be dated before the duplicates (which is probably all added later) so just look for later added contacts and be gone! =)

[Pontoon]

right I did the deleting the contacts the long way on the pocket pc. They've all now gone and I deleted all the contacts in the sim manager.

sorted all the ones I want in my outlook.
Synched the phone.

.... and now I've only got 2 contacts in my phone...

anyone any ideas what i'm doing wrong. Think it might be to do with my set up with my synching, but i'm having trouble finding how to solve that.