Contacts Cleaner

Useful in that a variety of Contact database entry properties are scanned and confirmed as not corresponding to some unspecific standard. This provides at least the opportunity to consider changing one’s entries, and addressing some uniformity issues.

A significant problem is that some “fix all” changes do not happen (e.g., removing blanks from notes) but recur upon every launch.

Another highly significant problem is the assessment to “fix” phone number formats. Is there anyone on this planet that really believes every phone number follows some unwritten American standard? That id simply ludicrous and highly provincial. Country codes are important, and the standard for formatting the world’s telephone numbers are certainly NOT those of any American software company. That is a serious mistake, and makes the overall tool lack credibility.

Randy Goebel about Contacts Cleaner, v1.7.2