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A cure for too many contacts

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Reader Frank Wu knows way too many people. He writes:</p>

I have about 18,000 contacts and neither the Address Book or Contacts app have synced in the last three years, when I had about 10,000 contacts. What is the maximum number of contacts these apps can hold? And if I’m past the maximum, what should I do?

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I don’t believe there is a practical limit. Contacts (and Address Book before it) uses an SQL database to hold this information and, as far as I know, it’s unlimited for this kind of use. However, there may be only so many contacts that syncing services can manage.</p><p>
As for dealing with the problem you have a couple of options. The first is to retreat to a cave and never meet another person again. This will do very little for your current predicament, but it will help prevent it from getting any worse.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2363215/a-cure-for-too-many-contacts.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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