Comments on: How To Remove Duplicate Contacts In Yahoo Mail?

By: Rahul Sharma

Rahul Sharma — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:59:34 +0000

That was pretty ingenious! Just like one other method that I worked on, a long time ago (http://www.waded.org/2009/08/14/backing-up-contacts-from-facebook/#comment-147) and was thankfully defeated by Yahoo, this method of yours did not work in my case!

I shall try your method, again, in IE and hopefully it should do the trick.

Keep up the thinking!

By: Rahul Sharma

Rahul Sharma — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:52:28 +0000

Yahoo is my favourite, however, this one is the second worst after their introduction of filters and removal of auto-routing of mail to folders in Disposable Addresses. After being censured all over the internet, that feature has been restored. Let us see how much this Beta troubles!

By: Rahul Sharma

Rahul Sharma — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:49:27 +0000

There! You said it! It is SO frustrating and tiring!

By: Rahul Sharma

Rahul Sharma — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:48:05 +0000

But then it just does not do the job! I spent about 2 hours Merging my 1255 Duplicates and there they were, again, in the same list!

By: Andrew Francis

Andrew Francis — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:33:05 +0000

oh zeen… caused we realized that but i just assumed that yahoo’s contact merging tool had a defect. Some of the contacts are merged but the old contact from which it was merged is still there. But I’m gonna try clicking it multiple times to see if that will really solve my problem.

By: msbob

msbob — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:10:52 +0000

It works… but you need to know the trick.

1. it only seems to affect 150 or so contacts at a time
2. press merge all exact
3. wait 2-3 minutes
4. then click on Contacts again to reload
5. start over

it took a while, but I was able to clean up 5000 contacts down to 1200.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:51:22 +0000

Yahoo’s “Remove Duplicate Contacts” should be renamed “Contacts Multiplier”. I have several hundred unique contacts which have been multiplied by Yahoo into the maximum limit of 5000. I can’t add any more new contacts.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:41:50 +0000

i tried this option but dint help much, yahoo was not able to detect many of the similar or double ids in my contacts, how can i merge them manually ?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:18:08 +0000

My experience as well. Just freezes and ends up doing nothing. I gotta reload Contacts entirely.

Poopy.

By: Jeff H

Jeff H — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:06:03 +0000

Yahoo! Mail’s recent addition of “Clean Up Duplicates Beta” in the Contact folder has been a complete disaster. It just freezes the Contacts folder, never resolving to actually show the contacts. What crap.