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I excluded from the synchroniyation accounts such as Whatsapp, Skype. The result of the subsequent synchronization was that MPE has uploaded all of these contacts to my Google account. I have MPE 1.8.7 and Samsung Note II.

I was hoping just to turn off the synchroniyation of these accounts because it was unnecessary for me to sync all accounts, except the contacts from my Google Account, with the MPE. Now I have contacts from all accounts merged into one account.

Is it possible to remove these duplicate contacts somehow easily?

I have had the sync turned off in MPE because I kept getting duplicates. I instead synced my outlook to my phone via gSyncit. It had bee about a year or so so I took a big chance and turned the Sync back on in MPE and it happened again! Most of my contacts were duplicated on Google, Outlook and MPE! What's worse is that it deleted all my contact pictures in all three! luckily, I had the presence of mind to back up all my contacts in Outlook. Now a simple duplicate remover would be handy.

I am embarrassed to say that I just noticed after what 4 years that there is four options under contacts:

• All
  Phone
  Cloud
  Skype
  Google

I have been running MPE with the contacts set to "All". I simply switched it to "Google" and no more duplicates!

Have been faced such a situation recently after changing one android phone to another.
In my case that was too easy to understand:
The only reason this to be occured - "just in case" and "as an experiment" (for easy contacts/data exchange in-the-field) I've turned on automatic Google synchronisation (which I never ever used before) in the old phone an then in the new one, and then tried to sync and restore all the stuff from Google.
Thereafter I've met new contacts entries multiplication after each synchronisation via MPE.

First of all I've tried apps from "Duplicate Contacts Removers" family, the best (imho) of which was found Contact Remover Plus.

Finally, I have

At first (using settings on the phone :: Sony Xperia under Android 5.1.1.):
- Turned OFF any automatic synchronisation in the phone for each account entry separately (Google, Skype, WhatsApp etc) and globally (Settings - Accounts - Auto-sync data = Off).
- Turned OFF any back up and restore of my data to/from Google servers (Settings - Backup & reset - Backup & restore - Back up my data = Off, Off, Off).

Next (using MPE 1.8.7. App on the PC):
- Rechecked all the MPE options tied with synchronization setting them like these:




Next (using MPE client on the phone):
- Rechecked all the MPE client options tied with contact synchronization like these:
Settings - Contact-accounts to sync - Phone
Settings - Add new contacts to - Phone

And finally I've got my contact list with unique entries only and never more duplicates in the phone and MPE (which has the single "Phone" entry in the "Contacts" section of the app, and no more nothing like "All, Google, WhatsApp etc").

p.s. Now when I need my some specific account/app data to be backed up/synchronized I prefer to do it manually from the phone for an every single appropriate entry.
E.g. for Google Keep that I like a lot:
Settings - Accounts - Google - Accounts - (sync icon) my.account.at.gmail.com (tap on name to enter) - Sync Keep (touch to sync)