Brilliant Severin.
Sounds like a logical sequence.

> On 20 Dec 2017, at 7:15 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Fixed it
> 1 turn off contacts link to cloud
> 2 select all contacts and delete 
> 3 reconnect contacts link to cloud
> 4 Bingo, single entries 
> 
> Severin Crisp 
> 
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> On 19 Dec 2017, at 14:34, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen that may be it.   When I turn off sharing with cloud the duplicates 
>> vanish but I can not see where other set comes from.  
>> Severin
>> 
>>> On 19 Dec 2017, at 14:13, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com 
>>> <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Severin.
>>> This may not be your case, but my iPhone did that recently after an update.
>>> It turned out that it was listing “from my Mac” and “from iCloud”.
>>> 
>>>> On 19 Dec 2017, at 11:40 am, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
>>>> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On our phone, iPads and desktops I have 5 Contacts (Address) Books all 
>>>> shared and working fine.   Recently, by some unknown circumstance all the 
>>>> cards on the book in my MacAir are duplicated identically.  Card/Look for 
>>>> Duplicates insists that there are no duplicates.   I would like to fully 
>>>> clear out the entries and let it reshare but of course High Sierra 
>>>> security makes this difficult.  
>>>> Suggestions please.  
>>>> Severin Crisp
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