just wouldnt work

Its a common enough problem, multiple duplicate contacts seem to breed like rabbits. Between my personal and organizational contacts I might have a thousand or so, but once they duplicated several times (like about 10 times) in my clumsy efforts to sync several computers and a mobileme account along with my iphone, I had a useless contact book. I went to the genius bar and the dude told me how to fix it. Use the contact book on my main mac, which has a "find duplicate" feature, and then once that one was fixed, export that resolved contact book to the other computers, the cloudy mobileme, and to my iphone. That was fine for the other computers, and mobileme, but it didnt work, even after several tries, for my iphone which continued to suffer from some sort of rabbit fever.

So I started manually removing the duplicate contacts while sitting at red lights, just killing time anyway, I figured. After a month or so, I am finally up to the Cs and today I decided I didnt want to dedicate the rest of the red lights in my life to this task, so I did a search for an app that might tame my contact book. They all have very mixed reviews, which makes me nervous, but I finally settled on this one, Delete Contacts, paid the dough and tried it out. If it had worked for me, it would have worked for anybody, because my address book is really large and bloated. But the damn thing just went to the first screen ("loading your address book" or something like that) and died, over and over. At least it didnt do any damage. I lost my 99¢, but not my contacts.

Randy in Seattle about DeleteContacts, v1.3