fix corrupted phonebook.dat

[Josiah Carberry]

My phonebook.dat file is corrupted. As a result of odd behavior in synchronizing Thunderbird with my Android phone, many of my >1000 contacts have duplicated phone numbers and email addresses, sometimes as many as 6 copies of the same numbers.

These errors are neither in my Thunderbird address book nor on the phone itself.

I would like to know if there is an easy way to recreate the phonebook.dat file WITHOUT deleting all the records on my phone and then recreating them via the sync function.

If I delete the file and then run the sync program, it will want to recreate all my contacts on the phone, which contacts are already there, so I do not want to do this.

Any simple solution, other than manually editing all the entries?

Thanks.

[Koelner]

Are the doublets on your phone as well?

If not, try reload the data from the phone by the Blue Arrow.

[Josiah Carberry]

Thanks for that. It turns out there is corrupted data on the phone, too, so I will have to bite the bullet and completely recreate the contacts on the phone.