Re: Inexplicable contact replication .. over 10,000 entries of the same contact and same email address

This is one for the record books. AFAIK this is the first report of anything
like this happening. I have to clue as to what is going on.

How are you managing these duplicates?

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Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
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From: MusicMaker4The1 <floresmc8124@xxxxxxxxx>
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:26:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Inexplicable contact replication .. over 10,000 entries of the same
contact and same email address

I use Entourage 2004, with MAC OS X 10.4.10.

Recently, I have had an experience where my address book gets filled
with literally hundreds to thousands of entries of contacts where the
name of the contact and the e-mail address of the contact is exactly
the same.

I have deleted these contacts over and over again and they keep coming
back.

I believe this renegade duplication of contacts happens when I receive
an e-mail from a specific person. That e-mail from that specific
address is when I first noticed the problem and that e-mail address is
the one with the most contact entries. Literally, this one contact
had over 10,000 entries in my address book where the e-mail address
and the name were exactly the same.

Also, buried within these duplicate contacts are the e-mail addresses
from my address book that also end up duplicating in my address book
as well.

As an example:

I might have 10,000 entries in my contacts of the following
(fictitious) contact:

Name E-mail
sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

bouncebacks@xxxxxxxxx
MAILER-
DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"another e-
mail address from my address book"
"another e-
mail address from my address book"
"another e-
mail address from my address book"
"another e-
mail address from my address book"


I suspect that one of the e-mail addresses in particular is causing
the problem.
Any ideas?

Thank you.
MM4the1

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