I too am having the issue where "Clean Up Contacts' does not identify 100s of duplicate contacts. I have, on average, 4 duplicates for each contact that was created in MS Live Mail. There HAS to be a resolution for this. PLEASE HELP!
how to delete duplicate contacts in Windows live mail
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I have upgraded from Outlook express (in Win xp) to Windows live mail (in win 7 professional), while importing contact , i have done it 2 times, now i want to delete duplicate contacts in one shot. Not step by step , becoz i have 4000 contacts. I can eaisly do it by deleting all and then importing once again. but it has MSN contacts also, it says while deleting MSN contacts will delete. So I am worried, becoz first I need to take backup of MSN contacts. So I am looking for a simple process
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2015-09-11T23:28:20+00:00 Hi John
I seem to have the same problem as you. I ran 'clean up contacts' from Windows Live Mail. It took me to people live, and the contacts were cleaned up. I then existed from Windows Live Mail and entered again.
But, I still have the contact list with the duplicates in Windows Live Mail. The cleaned-up list doesn't appear there.
Did you find a solution? This is driving me mad.
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Anonymous
2015-08-04T18:20:23+00:00 Im trying to work on this for someone, after I linked her email address making a Microsoft account (originally just Comcast) it says cleaning up, goes through everything, but never updates in windows live mail 2012. how do I do that?
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Anonymous
2015-07-15T21:50:29+00:00 Hi FireDog,
He is talking about the fact that in 4 pages the idea of opening " live mail " and clicking cleanup contacts, does not remove duplicates, in fact it does not even show them. What it does if I have two contacts a Fire Dog, and firedog, both with the same e-mail, it will combine them. However if you simply have firedog twice or more times, it ignores it.
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Anonymous
2015-03-31T11:24:48+00:00 ... REPLIES that do not work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Replies to what? Please use the Ask a question option on the Participatemenu to start your own thread about your own problem. Then please give as many details of the situation as possible - your version of Windows Live Mail, your operating system, whether you're signed in with a Microsoft Account and how the duplication of contacts arose. Someone will be able to help once we know what the situation is.