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I was working on removing duplicate contacts, and I found this solution! Hope this helps!
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2br-2b authored Oct 4, 2020
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For the longest time, I've been annoyed with Thunderbird because it doesn't catch duplicate contacts as you enter them into your address book. This seems like a standard thing to check for, but even in the <a href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0b4/">latest release</a>, this still hasn't <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129393">been</a> <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45946">fixed</a>.

This was really starting to get out of control for me, so I did some thinking today about how to fix it, and finally came up with an answer. There is <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2505">an add-on</a> that's supposed to do this, but it hasn't been updated in years, and doesn't work on the latest version.
You have two options:

So here's the process that worked for me:
1. There is an <a href="https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/duplicate-contacts-manager/">addon</a> that can easily do this for you! Install the addon, then from your address book, choose Tools > Find and manage duplicates...

2. If you want to do this the old-fasioned way:
- Open your address book, and select the address book that you wish to de-duplicate
- Go to Tools > Export, and export the address book as a CSV file.
- Open that file in OpenOffice Spreadsheet, and sort it by the column called "Display Name"
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- To get them back into Thunderbird, go to Tools > Import, and import the file. This will create a new address book by the name of the file.
- From there, simply delete your old address book, and rename the new one to something useful.

All done!
Either way works great!

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