Syncing Blackberry with Address Book Issues

[iggypop]

So I bought a new Blackberry 8900 yesterday and simply moved my sim from my old phone over. Unfortunately all my contacts got slightly screwed up and every name has /1 or /2 after it and anyone with multiple numbers got spilt.

So rather than edit all the names on the phone, I synced it with my Address Book on my Mac.

The contacts successfully transferred from my phone to my computer and I edited them, but once I moved them back to my phone, my contact list hasn't changed.

I clicked overwrite device, so by my knowledge this should have worked. Can anyone help me out.

Even if your not a Mac guy, it should be relatively the same process on PC.

[ah123]

Normally the sync writes the phone numbers to the BB addressbook, doesn't it? So you might be looking in the wrong place?

[greerb]

It's a pain in the ass having a BB if you are Mac user, trust me. I normaly use my work laptop with Windows on it to sync my contacts. You will probably have to download PocketMac for Blackberrys (I supplied the link below).

I recently switched from the 8310 to the 9300 great phone so far, BTW. How's the battery life iggy? Mine can barely do a day and a half without having to recharge.

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/desktop/mac.jsp

[iggypop]

Taking a closer look at my contact list (on my phone) I realized that all the contacts were moved from the computer but merely duplicating everything.

So now the spelling is right, but it didn't overwrite the device like I had clicked.
So now I have nearly 400 contacts on my phone. 200 spelled correctly, 200 previously on the phone with mistakes.

I could go through and start deleting the duplicates that are incorrect, but it seems like there should be an easier way.

Edit: Thanks greerb, I downloaded that already so that's what I'm using. No idea on the battery life yet, as I have only used it for about 24 hours.

[Winsor_Pilates]

I think it didn't overwrite because it thinks they're different people. So i sees Jack & Jack/02 as different entries and doesn't overwrite.

I would try deleting the entire contact list on the BB, and then re-syncing with your address book on the Mac.