So I developed this small problem with iCloud where my contact groups started multiplying. I ended up with close to 200 copies of each of about 15 groups. Try deleting a group in Address Book. See how it takes about 5 seconds before you can move onto the next one? See how there’s no “select all” for groups? It would have taken hours to manually delete all of those groups. A nice AppleCare adviser is looking into this for me, but in the meantime, I think I’ve figured out a workable solution involving AppleScript.
Now you really should backup your Address Book before you do this. I like to create an Address Book archive and also select all and export vCards.
Actually, nevermind. Just don’t do this. Forget I ever laid it out as a possibility. You’ll probably do something horrible to you data.
repeat 1000 times
tell application “Address Book” to activate
tell application “System Events”
tell process “Address Book”
tell menu bar 1
click menu item “Delete Group” of menu “Edit”
end tell
end tell
key code 36
delay 5
end tell
end repeat
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