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Unique contact record names?

edited Dec 3, 2019 1:14PM in Account Administration 2 comments

I'm running through a new import and have received the following error message when my import failed: "A contact record with this name already exists. Every contact record must have a unique name."

I am convinced that I have no duplicates of the actual contact name (i.e. first name, last name combination) as we do not have enough records in our database and I have searched against the values in a few of my "failed" records for any examples.

What may this problem be?  I simply want to import these records from a legacy database.  I will be doing this same exercise many times in the next few weeks and I need to be able to bring duplicates in anyway, to check their accuracy.

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