Coping with MobileMe sync duplications

If you’ve used MobileMe on more than one device, you’ve probably had a few instances of duplicate items appearing in your Address Book. And once they are in there, they can hang arrange like the plague. So here’s a quick hit list…

Take one machine and clean up the offending AddressBook on it. Open the MobileMe System Preference pane. Replace the data on MobileMe with data from that Mac. Change a contact and re-sync. Check the data is visible in your account on Me.com. Then on all your other devices replace the data on the Mac with data from MobileMe. Run some test syncs, then make tea…