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Several hunderd duplicates of certain contacts in Thunderbird

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I am getting several hundred duplicates of particular contacts on my gmail address book mounted in Thunderbird. I delete them iand on the next start up they are there again. The curious thing is that when I go to gmail on the web, those address (and many others, are not there at all--it appears not to be synchronizing from3 Thunderbird to gmail on the web. BUt that doesn't bother me. What is worrisome is the inmense duplication of particular contacts in the address book. What to do?

Thank you for your help

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of :

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy thunderbird

Thanks

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Pablo (ceascolombia) said : 		#2

Thank you for your response. The problem arises most notably with two addresses, which I have just deleted completely. Previously I had always left one instance of the address. Upon complete deletion, Thunderbird has recovered from it's sluggishness, but it remains to be seen if the problem recurs, as it has in the past.

The following is the output requested:

LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-3.0-amd64:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-amd64:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-amd64:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-amd64:cxx-4.0-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-3.1-amd64:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-amd64:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-amd64:desktop-4.0-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-amd64:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.1-amd64:graphics-4.1-noarch:languages-3.2-amd64:languages-3.2-noarch:languages-4.0-amd64:languages-4.0-noarch:languages-4.1-amd64:languages-4.1-noarch:multimedia-3.2-amd64:multimedia-3.2-noarch:multimedia-4.0-amd64:multimedia-4.0-noarch:multimedia-4.1-amd64:multimedia-4.1-noarch:printing-3.2-amd64:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch:qt4-3.1-amd64:qt4-3.1-noarch:security-4.0-amd64:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-amd64:security-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux ceas-530U3C-530U4C 3.13.0-29-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 21:00:20 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
thunderbird:
  Instalados: 1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Candidato: 1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://mirror.symnds.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:24.4.0+build1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.symnds.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

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Pablo (ceascolombia) said : 		#3

When I rebooted, the hundreds of copies of the two deleted contacts reappeared in the Thunderbird addressbook.

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Pablo (ceascolombia) said : 		#4

I reran lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy thunderbird and got the following output:

LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-3.0-amd64:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-amd64:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-amd64:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-amd64:cxx-4.0-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-3.1-amd64:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-amd64:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-amd64:desktop-4.0-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-amd64:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.1-amd64:graphics-4.1-noarch:languages-3.2-amd64:languages-3.2-noarch:languages-4.0-amd64:languages-4.0-noarch:languages-4.1-amd64:languages-4.1-noarch:multimedia-3.2-amd64:multimedia-3.2-noarch:multimedia-4.0-amd64:multimedia-4.0-noarch:multimedia-4.1-amd64:multimedia-4.1-noarch:printing-3.2-amd64:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch:qt4-3.1-amd64:qt4-3.1-noarch:security-4.0-amd64:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-amd64:security-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux ceas-530U3C-530U4C 3.13.0-29-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 21:00:20 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
thunderbird:
  Instalados: 1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Candidato: 1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://mirror.symnds.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:24.4.0+build1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.symnds.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

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Pablo (ceascolombia) said : 		#5

Greetings--as my previous response indicates, the problem persists. I appreciate any help and guidance you can give me. Thank you

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Pablo (ceascolombia) said : 		#6

I disabled the Thunderbird add-on called Google Contacts 0.7.12 which is supposed to sync the Thunderbird contacts with the gmail contacts. That eliminated the problem.