Contacts Cleaner for Pc

I encountered a horrible problem with the app. I had less than 400 the app, but in macOS High Sierra (not in any iOS device, though), I suddenly found that I couldn’t add new the app. After entering a new name and company, I’d get mostly through the phone number when the new-contact form would suddenly be replaced by what would have been the next contact alphabetically, and it oepned this new form in Editing mode for some reason. Nothing I tried helped, and I’d have thought of trying to uninstall and reinstall, but the app is not an app that can be uninstalled. In desperation I turned to Contact Cleaner. It found many problems with the entries. There were duplications, incorrect phone-number formats, spaces in names, etc. NONE seemed serious, but after I’d worked through the entire list, the app started functioning normally again. I’ve no idea what was wrong with the application, but running Contact Cleaner, and addressing every problem it found, restored normal functionality. So, if I never have need of Contact Cleaner again, it will still have been an excellent bargain.

For what the use I got it wasn’t worth the $5. There was only one thing I let it do for me and otherwise used the analysis to guide my cleanup tasks, but only because it gave a little more information than the native app does and let me see things side by side more easily. In my use case, I keep duplicates of many the app in a Gmail account I share with my partner. This app wanted to “delete the duplicates”. What really needed to happen is for the the app app to Link the duplicates between the two accounts. When I did that (select both, Cmd-Shift-L), this app stopped seeing them as duplicates. None of the other issues it identifies were issues I wanted it to “fix”. I have a number of single name contact entries; nothing to “fix”. It said phone numbers were poorly formmated, partially because I put “+1” at the beginning of U.S. numbers, I sometimes put spaces in the First Name field (Andy & Joan) etc. In reality, most of the problems it found were problems of its own making. Every “single name” error also produced “Shared Email” errors. Overall, not as helpful as I was hoping.

I am in sales and collect contact information at a astonashing rate. If I am at an event or conference I can easily collect 50 cards and a lot of other misc. data. My phone is where it gets stuck, and over time it becomes unruly and needs a good cleaning. I started a new job with a new system, and it duplicated my the app, and resorted things into a real mess. LinkedIn screwed up my list real good too. The first de-duplicator I bought doesn’t allow you to fix anything in bulk. Meaning- it pulls every contact and asks what you want to do. I had 7800 the app- this was an impossible task. I bought this app and it groups the errors into similar kinds, allows you to determine the logic of fixing that group (merge, delete, delete the bad variable, etc). I’m 20 minutes into the cleanup and have reduced my list from 7800 entries to 1994. It just cleaned up 720 duplicated ‘notes’! Just what I needed! And so cheap compared to the time it saved!

It looks to me like cleaning up data is just hard, and the app must be harder. Nothing I’ve tried, on any platform, gets it done perfectly or without a little anxiety. But the PITA factor with this is much less, the errors (like having to just write off an address that just has a single email in it…where you know the person’s name, or could guess…because it’s just not worth opening up the app and typing in your guesses) are fewer, and most of all the anxiety is very low. You can *see* what it’s doing. I guess the unpleasantness is having to admit that, after moving the app among systems for years, there’s just some attrition. Which is not the program’s fault. The great thing about this app is: it happens fast, you can see what’s going on, and then it’s back to real work. TOTALLY worth the tiny price.